[Peace-discuss] DN!: Hersh: Congress Agreed to Bush Request...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yes, particularly because it now seems that the "confidential information" that 
the White House gave Tim and other representatives was the "yellowcake" lie 
(viz., that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger) that Joe Wilson debunked, 
leading to the administration's outing of the CIA connection of his wife, 
Valerie Plame...  --CGE

John W. wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:jencart13 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Yeah, four more involved... but the strange and awful thing here is
>     that it would have been "illegal" for these guys to squeal about
>     those secret operations. Same deal in effect made it "illegal"
>     for Durbin et al to divulge that they knew the "evidence" given for
>     justification for attacking Iraq was bogus BEFORE the attack was
>     carried out. Something is seriously amiss here (other than the
>     players involved).
> 
>      --Jenifer  
> 
> 
> Well, someone "in the know" had to leak the story to Seymour Hersh, right?
> 
> I remember when Carl was running for Congress, and he engaged the 
> incumbent Representative Tim Johnson on the subject of invading Iraq, or 
> Afghanistan, or whatever it was.  Tim kept saying that he has all this 
> "confidential information" indicating that invasion was justified, but 
> of course he couldn't reveal what it was.  Pretty convenient, it seemed 
> to me.