"Intelligence" Chairman Claims Iraq Intelligence Manipulated

He states :"We now know that the intelligence was cherry-picked and manipulated." But he doesn't want to do anything about it. Well we seem to have a problem here. Either A) He's lying about intelligence being manipulated, or B) He's too chicken shit to stand up and do something about it if intelligence was manipulated. If he had hard evidence that intelligence about the Iraq war was manipulated, he could cause a shitstorm like this country has ever seen. But he doesn't want to pursue it. Why? Plus, this guy is the incoming intelligence chairman, you'd like to think that he has a firm grip on who we're dealing with. He doesn't.

A Congressional Quarterly reporter recently gave Reyes a pop quiz about al-Qaida and Hezbollah. Reyes answered that al-Qaida, a Sunni extremist group, was "predominantly, probably Shiite." Asked about Hezbollah's religious roots, he replied, "Why do you ask me these questions at five o'clock?"

Trying to recover from the misstep, Reyes issued a short statement suggesting he shouldn't be judged on the interview.

I'm not too comfortable having an Intelligence Committee Chairman not know basic things about our enemies. Especially enemies who've killed 3,000 Americans. I expect this guy to know more about Al-Qaeda and the Middle East then I do. I expect him to have satellite photos and HUMINT on each and every person known in Al-Qaeda. I expect him to have surveillance on each one of those people and each person that they have contact with. For him to have such a limited knowledge about such things makes me VERY nervous.

Well I hope he can recover from this major misstep. The Democrats are now in control of Congress and they have one of their own as the top guy on the Intelligence Committee. If something goes catastrophically wrong, then they will just prove my point that Democrats are weak on terrorism and intelligence gathering in general.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com