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 [...]
Starting a new timeline today
I will be revising it as time goes on and as new information arises.
Sept 5 2002
CIA Director George Tenet appears before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in a secret session to discuss the agency’s intelligence on Iraq. Graham and Durbin ask to see the latest NIE on Iraq and learn none exists. Tenet: “We’ve [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Senate report: Bush administration ignored warnings about Iraq
May 29, 2007 | Editor’s note: On Friday, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — commonly known as the Senate Intelligence Committee — released the latest in a series of reports on prewar intelligence about Iraq. This report provides documentation of intelligence that senior administration officials knew, or should have known, about Intelligence Community [...]
“Blood is going to be on your hands”
The cafe format permitted a lengthier explanation than in the debate’s 90-second answer, so I discussed the classified intelligence contrasted with unclassified at the time of the Iraqi war vote in October 2002, when Sen. Bob Graham begged his colleagues on the floor of the Senate to read the 90 page classified NIE on WMD [...]
