Senator Levin

I watched a bit of this on CSpan last night

Pentagon official distorted intelligence, report says: printer friendly version

Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee

The 46-page report by Levin and the Democratic staff of the Armed Services Committee is the first to focus narrowly on the role played by Feith’s office. Democrats had sought to include that line of inquiry in a report completed in June by the Senate Intelligence Committee, but Republicans on that panel succeeded in an effort to postpone that phase of the study until after the presidential election.

In an interview, Levin said that he had concluded that Feith had practiced a “continuing deception of Congress.” But he said he had no evidence that Feith’s conduct had been illegal in any way.

Levin launched the inquiry in June 2003, after Republicans on the panel, headed by Senator John Warner of Virginia, declined to participate in such an effort. Levin said that his efforts had been endorsed by other Democrats on the panel, but complained that the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency had declined to provide his staff with crucial documents necessary for the inquiry.

The Defense Department and Warner’s office did not immediately return telephone calls requesting comment on the report.

Among the findings in the report were that the CIA had concluded by June 2002, earlier than has been previously known, that it was skeptical that a meeting had taken place in April 2001 between the Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence official. But Feith and other senior Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, continued at least through the end of 2002 to describe the alleged meeting as evidence of a possible link between Iraq and the Sept. 11 attacks.

Again, still yet another member of the Congress, aside from all those “loonies” out there writing and speaking blasphemy against Bush, which lends credance to the idea that maybe this is a substantial growth of people actually “waking up” and “speaking out” aginst the massive deception, distortion, lying, dragging us into a war that would otherwise be “un-justifiable” (unless massive lies and mass spreading of fear and anxiety based on all those lies were told and accomplished).

Again, these people are dangerous, and diabolical.

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