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 [...]
“The Hill” Senate Survey
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 [...]
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 [...]
“The Perfect Storm”
Before War, CIA Warned of Negative Outcomes
Analysts in 2002 Described Worst-Case Scenarios, Including Anarchy in Iraq, Global Antipathy to U.S.
On Aug. 13, 2002, the CIA completed a classified, six-page intelligence analysis that described the worst scenarios that could arise after a U.S.-led removal of Saddam Hussein: anarchy and territorial breakup in Iraq, a surge of [...]
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 [...]
