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Ex-head of CIA accuses Bush over rush to war

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posted on Apr, 27 2007 @ 11:33 PM
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Ex-head of CIA accuses Bush over rush to war


news.independent.co.uk

By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 28 April 2007
The row over how President Bush went to war in Iraq has re-erupted with a charge by George Tenet, the former director of the CIA, that a coterie of top officials pushed America into the conflict with no real debate as to whether Saddam Hussein actually posed an imminent threat to the US.

Mr Tenet's angry indictment of his colleagues is the first of its kind from a top ranking member of Mr Bush's once-vaunted national security team, and was instantly rebutted by the White House.

"The President did wrestle with those very serious questions," Dan Bartlett, a senior White House adviser, said yesterday. The former CIA chief, he drily noted, though a "true patriot" was probably unaware of how intensely the President had discussed the case for war with Tony Blair and other allied leaders.

That dismissal, however, is unlikely to be the end of the matter as Iraq is at the centre of political debate here and Mr Bush is poised to veto a measure from the Democrat-controlled Congress that ties $124bn (£62m) of emergency funding for the wars there and in Afghanistan to a phased troop withdrawal starting later this year.

In a sense, the row follows a familar Washington pattern, especially in the second term of a struggling administration, when officials who have lost either arguments or their jobs tend to settle scores with their rivals, usually in the pages of a best-selling political tell-all.

Thus it has been with Mr Tenet, in his 549-page At the Center of the Storm, due to be published on Monday, but whose juiciest segments appeared in the US press yesterday. This time, however, the consequences could resonate far more widely, given the unfolding disaster Iraq has become and that Mr Tenet is confirming from the inside what has long been suspected by most outsiders.

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posted on Apr, 27 2007 @ 11:33 PM
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Well, this is interesting. THis is the first high-ranking Bush official to come forward and accuse Bush & Co of rushing into the War half-cocked. His book is sure to set Washington a-buzz with the speculation of what his accusations may bring with them.

Will the Whitehouse retaliate in some way, will congress subpoena Tenet to testify before the judiciary committee and swer under oath that his accusations are true? Will there be more talk about impeachment? Only time will tell; stay tuned!



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