Post finally takes a serious look at revealations of Saddam Osama connections
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post after two snarky blurbs about the Weekly Standard article revelaing intelligence informationon the Saddam Osama connection, finally takes a serious look at some of the allegations in the article.
Pincus focuses on the CIA position that tends to discount the connection, mainly by challenging some of the sources of the data.
Pincus also lets Sen. Rockefeller put his incoherent spin on the revealtions.
"...Yesterday, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the panel vice chairman, said, 'This is an egregious leak of classified information that jeopardizes intelligence sources and risks damaging our ability to find and stop terrorists before they strike again.'
Rockefeller also took issue with the Standard's assessment that the Feith memo proved a strong operational relationship existed between al Qaeda and Iraq before the war began last spring. 'The intelligence community assessment was and continues to be that any connection between Iraq and al Qaeda is tenuous,' Rockefeller said."
Let's see, this was a damaging leak of tenous information, right. What is really damaging from Rockefeller's prespective is that the memo shoots down one of the premises of the Dems complaint s about Bush's policy in liberating Iraq. The Dems want to keep arguing that their was no connection between Saddam and bin Laden in an attempt to undercut the President. The leaked memo makes that argument much harder to sustain.
Walter Pincus of the Washington Post after two snarky blurbs about the Weekly Standard article revelaing intelligence informationon the Saddam Osama connection, finally takes a serious look at some of the allegations in the article.
Pincus focuses on the CIA position that tends to discount the connection, mainly by challenging some of the sources of the data.
Pincus also lets Sen. Rockefeller put his incoherent spin on the revealtions.
"...Yesterday, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the panel vice chairman, said, 'This is an egregious leak of classified information that jeopardizes intelligence sources and risks damaging our ability to find and stop terrorists before they strike again.'
Rockefeller also took issue with the Standard's assessment that the Feith memo proved a strong operational relationship existed between al Qaeda and Iraq before the war began last spring. 'The intelligence community assessment was and continues to be that any connection between Iraq and al Qaeda is tenuous,' Rockefeller said."
Let's see, this was a damaging leak of tenous information, right. What is really damaging from Rockefeller's prespective is that the memo shoots down one of the premises of the Dems complaint s about Bush's policy in liberating Iraq. The Dems want to keep arguing that their was no connection between Saddam and bin Laden in an attempt to undercut the President. The leaked memo makes that argument much harder to sustain.
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