Powell's speech, delivered on February 5, 2003, made the case for the war by presenting U.S. intelligence that purported to prove that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Wilkerson says the information in Powell's presentation initially came from a document he described as "sort of a Chinese menu" that was provided by the White House.
It was not the CIA that provided intel to Powell it was the Whitehouse.
So Powell works for the President, and was given some information. So far, no one's being accused of knowingly passing on false information. The next bit of the story is this:
Wilkerson and Powell spent four days and nights in a CIA conference room with then-Director George Tenet and other top officials trying to ensure the accuracy of the presentation, Wilkerson says.
This means that the White House (Powell) is asking the CIA (Tenet) to verify the information.
So where (
in the article which you presented as proof of Bush administration mendacity) is the administration lying? Also, I note that when you presented this article, you quoted a passage that implicates the DIA as the weak link. Now, you say it's the White House.
I thank you for the other interesting information you've presented, but could you finish with your first source, please? I'm not even trying to get Bush off the hook, here. It just seems that, if it is way past time for war crimes charges, there should be a million news articles that make that case. And you picked the one that didn't even try? It's sloppy.
