:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 10.29.2003 ::
:: RE the Bush Case for War ::
From CBS News:
Panel: Iraq Threat Was Overstated
(CBS/AP) A Senate panel is preparing a report that will sharply criticize intelligence agencies for overstating the weapons of mass destruction threat allegedly posed by Iraq, a newspaper reports.
But the CIA says the panel is drawing conclusions prematurely, since the weapons hunt is continuing in Iraq.
The Washington Post says the report by the Senate Intelligence Committee will fault intelligence agencies, especially the CIA, for using too much disputed, circumstantial or single-source data in preparing its estimates of Iraq's alleged weapons programs.
However, the report may not be out until the end of the year, and committee members are still divided over how much blame to assign to the CIA, the White House or the Pentagon.
>The newspaper quotes the chairman of the committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., saying: "the executive was ill-served by the intelligence community" and calling the intelligence at times "sloppy."
From The Nation:
The Wilson-CIA Leak, WMDs and the Dems
As the Bush White House juggles two political grenades--the Wilson leak and the MIA WMDs--there are two questions: can Bush and his gang prevent detonations, and can the Democrats make it difficult for Bush to defuse these controversies and escape without offering full explanations?
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:: 11:29:00 AM [+] ::
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