Jay Rockefeller’s Amnesia; White House Weakness

Published June 5, 2008 5:22pm ET



Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released (yet another) report written by Democratic staffers claiming the Bush administration politicized intelligence. The “report” is a political document that is already accomplishing its goal: making headlines. I’ll leave it to someone more industrious to correct the numerous errors in the report and in the news stories about it. (Maybe the White House? Nah.) “In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even non-existent,” Rockefeller said at a news conference. “As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed.” Like when Jay Rockefeller called it an “imminent threat” on October 10, 2002? The Bush administration made the case that the Iraqi threat must be addressed before it was imminent. Rockefeller disagreed.

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