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ADMINISTRATION CONFUSION REINFORCES NEED FOR HEARINGS ON IRAQ INTELLIGENCE
Monday July 14, 2003FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 2003
Contact: Josh Freed
(202) 225-4431
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) said that the Administration’s changing explanations about the inclusion of inaccurate intelligence on Iraq’s quest to purchase uranium from Niger reinforced the need for a broad Congressional investigation into America’s pre-war intelligence.
“It is vital to our war on terrorism and our broader international standing that the credibility of our Commander-in-Chief is unimpeachable,” said Rep. DeGette. “The President of the United States should be justifiably outraged that inaccurate information got into his most important, most watched speech of the year. Instead, we are seeing a series of dissembling statements from the Administration trying to justify intelligence reports that were called into question as early as October 2002.”
It is now 118 days since the United States went to war with Iraq and 93 days since the fall of Baghdad.
“To date, neither Iraq’s arsenal of weapons of mass destruction nor Saddam Hussein have been found,” said Rep. DeGette. “This is a true national security crisis. If these weapons do exist, every day we go without finding them is a day that they could fall into the hands of terrorists, other nations hostile to the United States or the guerrilla forces still engaged in combat against our troops in Iraq. If these weapons do not exist, it would represent an intelligence disaster.”
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July 14, 2003
Contact: Josh Freed
(202) 225-4431
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) said that the Administration’s changing explanations about the inclusion of inaccurate intelligence on Iraq’s quest to purchase uranium from Niger reinforced the need for a broad Congressional investigation into America’s pre-war intelligence.
“It is vital to our war on terrorism and our broader international standing that the credibility of our Commander-in-Chief is unimpeachable,” said Rep. DeGette. “The President of the United States should be justifiably outraged that inaccurate information got into his most important, most watched speech of the year. Instead, we are seeing a series of dissembling statements from the Administration trying to justify intelligence reports that were called into question as early as October 2002.”
It is now 118 days since the United States went to war with Iraq and 93 days since the fall of Baghdad.
“To date, neither Iraq’s arsenal of weapons of mass destruction nor Saddam Hussein have been found,” said Rep. DeGette. “This is a true national security crisis. If these weapons do exist, every day we go without finding them is a day that they could fall into the hands of terrorists, other nations hostile to the United States or the guerrilla forces still engaged in combat against our troops in Iraq. If these weapons do not exist, it would represent an intelligence disaster.”
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