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Originally posted by bilmore
It's really sort of funny. He's bitching about Rice relying too much on the wrong info that misled Bush into thinking there were WMD.
But, go back to late 2003. He was the one puffing it up and giving it to Rice.
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Late '03? So you're saying that after the end of major combat, when the ISG was proclaiming confidence about finding WMDs while it went about doing what it was appointed to do (that is, find WMDs), this somehow undermines his credibility for criticizing the NSC's prewar actions? That's pretty tenuous. I myself think you'd be better off going with the "disgruntled former employee" songbook.
I also think that, rather than complaining about her reliance on the "wrong info", his bitching is about her inability to manage the different pipelines of information well enough, seeing as how the Office of Special Plands and the Office of the VP were running their own data mining operations. But I guess we'll all have a better idea of the facts behind these charges when the WMD inquiry wraps up in 2009.
