NYT: Inquiry on Intelligence Gaps May Reach to White House

Inquiry on Intelligence Gaps May Reach to White House
By DAVID S. CLOUD
Published: February 10, 2007

Washington, Feb. 9 — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Friday that he would ask current and former White House aides to testify about a report by the Pentagon’s inspector general that criticizes the Pentagon for compiling “alternative intelligence” that made the case for invading Iraq.

The chairman, Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, said that among those called to testify could be Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, and I. Lewis Libby, a former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney. Both received a briefing from the defense secretary’s policy office in 2002 on possible links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s government.

In its report on Thursday, the acting inspector general, Thomas F. Gimble, found that the work done by the Pentagon team, which was assembled by Douglas J. Feith, a former under secretary of defense for policy, was “not fully supported by the available intelligence.”

It was not clear whether Mr. Hadley and Mr. Libby would testify. The White House normally resists having top aides testify before Congress.

The Senate Intelligence Committee may also seek to question the men. Tara Andringa, a spokeswoman for Mr. Levin, said Mr. Levin planned to consult with Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia and chairman of that committee. Mr. Levin is on both committees....

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/washington/10feith.html

at the White House.

They're moving in the wrong direction--the inquiry should START at the Bush White House!

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rocknation

Time for some subpoena action and see if they resist those..If a Constitutional Crisis is required then "Bring it on"....

These are not "gaps" that are under investigation these are lies integral to a conspiracy to commit acts of aggression, ie: mass murder. To which you shits at the NYTimes gave your all in the way of drumbeating assistance --all that a dictator could ever ask of his state run press.

All the way to the White House? Say it ain't so! Mercy me, but I'm sure that if the Republicans, who controlled Congress for the last five years had even suspected any such thing, they would have been on this like bulldogs on raw meat, the party of the current occupant be damned. Right?

I said, "Right?"

Well, if the Republicans were daunted by party considerations, we all know that the mandarins of the media, who operate in a wholly objective world without fear or favor, would have been relentless in tracking down the truth they knew was lurking just beneath the surface, right?

I said, "Right?"

Hmmm. Since we've established the criminal negligence of the Republicans and the media in reporting on this very critical matter, we know that none of them will have the audacity now to pretend to high dudgeon and outrage about how they were so willingly hoodwinked, right?

I said, "Right?"

Right, Gratuitous!
Right, Gratuitous!

It's not the Iraq war, it's Bush's war or the neocon war. They bought it, while we paid for it, ownership belongs to them.

Very good!

(Consider it stolen.)

If I did coin it, it belongs in the public domain along with Bush's war. Please, steal, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat...