In Defending War Vote, Clintons Contradict Record
WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton have repeatedly invoked the name of Senator Chuck Hagel, a longtime critic of the Iraq war, as they defend Mrs. Clinton’s 2002 vote to authorize the war.In interviews and at a recent campaign event, they have said that Mr. Hagel, Republican of [...]
Clinton, Hagel: IWR, Biden-Lugar
“The Hill” Senate Survey
The Hill has conducted a survey of US Senators who voted on the IWR as to whether or not they read the Oct 2 2002 NIE before voting.
I hope a similar survey is taken of House of Representative Members of that year.
Few senators read Iraq NIE report
Only a handful of senators outside the Intelligence Committee [...]
Edwards: “I had the information I needed. I just voted wrong.”
Edwards is a Democrat who voted for a 2002 resolution giving President Bush authority to invade Iraq. He has since apologized for the vote. He said Friday he had believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that President Bush should have been given the authority to make the invasion decision. “On both [...]
McCain, Brownback did not read Oct 1 2002 NIE
McCain and the NIE
Posted: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 7:08 PM by Mark Murray
Categories: Republican debatesFrom NBC’s Mark Murray
McCain just admitted he didn’t read the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate… Brownback said he didn’t remember reading it, either.
MSNBC First Read
New Hampshire Debate and the Oct 1 2002 NIE
I had hoped Kucinich would seize the moment at the Democratic debate in New Hampshire and make it clear whether or not he had read the Oct 1 2002 NIE. I felt sure he would have gone to the locked room and done so before voting against the IWR. But he didn’t say one way [...]
Yglesias: The Classified NIE
One issue that came up in the debate was whether or not reading the classified version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq would have given Hillary Clinton and/or John Edwards a better perspective on the war. Years later, and in the heat of a primary campaign, it’s a bit hard to look objectively at [...]
Rather surprising from Booman
I’ve always read Booman Tribune as having an open-minded and rational approach to looking at this political life of ours. But this entry which broils Hillary Clinton while giving John Edwards the “no problem, pal” is weird. I’m no Clinton supporter, let it be known, but the biggest difference between Clinton and Edwards on Iraq [...]
Surprise that Edwards didn’t read the NIE
Chuck Todd:
Hillary Clinton can be stubborn, can’t she. She won’t apologize for her vote on the war (like some Democrats want her to) and she won’t acknowledge whether it was a mistake NOT reading the N.I.E.
And now John Edwards also doesn’t believe it was a mistake that he didn’t read the N.I.E. In talking with [...]
Edwards says he had all the intelligence he needed for Iraq vote
LAS VEGAS– Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said he doesn’t regret not reading an key intelligence report before voting to authorize the war in Iraq.
“I think I had the information that was available at the time,” the former vice presidential nominee told The Associated Press at a campaign stop in Las Vegas. “I wish I’d [...]
Who read the Oct 1 2002 NIE?
Ben Smith on The Politico is updating his accounting of 2008 candidates, apparently Senators only, who actually took the trouble to read the full version of the National Intelligence Estimate before voting for or against the IWR.
I seem to remember Rep. Dennis Kucinich saying he had read it, but have not confirmed. It is said [...]
