[Peace-discuss] Best response to Sen. Diane Feinstein's death from Scott Ritter

[Robert Naiman]

Thanks for sharing this. It should be noted that every Member of Congress
who voted for the war committed basically the same crime as Dianne
Feinstein. Every Member of Congress has access to classified U.S.
intelligence. Feinstein's responsibility was greater because she served on
the Senate Intelligence Committee. Even if Scott Ritter had never existed,
even if he had never tried to do anything, her responsibility would be
about the same. Dick Durbin, who voted against the war, later gave a speech
on the Senate floor saying that as a Member of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, he knew at the time of the vote that the Bush Administration's
public case for war did not match the U.S. intelligence he was seeing as a
member of the Intelligence Committee. If Dick Durbin knew that, then every
member of the Senate Intelligence Committee knew that. And of course, any
Senator knew that if they wanted to know it - they could have just asked
Dick Durbin, and he would have told them. So it's basically true of all of
them.

On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 6:37 PM J.B. Nicholson via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Quoting https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1707760992300490794
> from Scott
> Ritter who is a former UN Weapons Inspector, former USMC Intelligence
> Officer,
> currently an author and an analyst. You can find episodes of his show,
> "Ask the
> Inspector" on https://rumble.com/c/USTourOfDuty . The upcoming episode
> airs tonight
> at
> https://rumble.com/v3lldbv-scott-ritter-extra-ep.-102-ask-the-inspector.html
>
> Here's Ritter not long after news of Sen. Diane Feinstein broke that she
> had died
> this week, aged 90:
> > I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion
> of Iraq.
> > She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on
> Intelligence
> > (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer
> from the
> > committee ask me to come to Washington DC to brief her on Iraqi WMD and
> the
> > allegations being made by the Bush administration that Iraq continued to
> possess
> > them. We met in a secure conference room in the Capital building—me, the
> Senator,
> > and a half dozen staffers and aides. It was a polite, professional
> affair, with
> > the Senator asking questions and taking notes. Eventually she confronted
> me—“Your
> > position is causing us some difficulty. You are making the US look bad
> in the eyes
> > of the world.” I replied that my analysis and the underlying facts were
> rock
> > solid, something she agreed with. I said that while I knew she couldn’t
> reveal
> > sensitive intelligence, if she could look me in the eye and say she has
> seen
> > unequivocal proof that Iraq retained WMD, I’d shut up and go away. She
> looked at
> > her retinue, and then me. “I have seen no such intelligence,” she
> replied. She
> > thanked me for the briefing, and said it provided her with “food for
> thought.”
> >
> > On October 11, 2002, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the resolution
> > authorizing war with Iraq. Later, she said she had been misled by the
> Bush
> > administration and bad intelligence.
> >
> > I will forever know Senator Feinstein as someone who had been empowered
> by the
> > truth, and lacked the moral courage to act on it. The blood of thousands
> of
> > Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis stains her soul. I hope
> when she
> > stands in judgment before her maker, she is punished accordingly.
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