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The Dishonesty Of the President Newsday 7/17/03 To justify a pre-emptive war with Iraq, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other high-level officials selectively used - and may have misused - intelligence information to make the case that Saddam Hussein posed an imminent threat to his neighbors, to U.S. interests in the Mideast and even to Americans here at home.snip We filed the classified version of our report (on 9/11) on Dec. 20, 2002. It has taken seven months for the administration to decide what portions of the report can be made public. I am hopeful that the declassified version will be released this month. Then Congress can finally begin working on legislative solutions to the problems we have identified.
But we have lost valuable time to work with first responders to apply our findings and bolster our homeland security - and, even more seriously, there is much valuable information in the 800-page report that we will not be allowed to release.
Why? Because the executive branch controls the classification process, and this information would embarrass the administration or otherwise not serve its policy ends.
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