ViceZilla’s Views

Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said while speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday, “The information we had in the intelligence committee was not the same information being given to the American people. I couldn’t believe it.”

Even though he was angered by the information being fed to the public by the White House, he claims he wouldn’t have been able to do anything about it anyway because he and other members of the intelligence committee were sworn to secrecy.

The White House responded by saying Congress had access to the same intelligence and voted overwhelmingly to go to war.

Mr. Durbin, whose floor comments were part of the debate before yesterday’s passage of an emergency war-funding bill, said he and half the Democrats on the intelligence committee voted against the war over concerns of the White House’s “very flimsy case, but it was given to the American people as a proven fact.”

Once again, somebody is lying.

So which scenario properly fits?
1)The CIA is totally inept in it’s intelligence gathering capabilities.

2)The CIA information is accurate, but it is intentionally misinterpreted or ignored by the Bush Administration to fuel their war mongering desires.

Unless of course we consider a third possible scenario; that being scenarios 1 plus 2 equaling a total and complete betrayal.

Durbin kept silent

Tags: Bush Administration, War in Iraq //