The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
i.e. the rubber stamp intelligence committee. it was a republican majority committee led by bush lacky kit bond.
as far as your other quote, guess you missed this...
What about that 500 tons of yellow cake under seal at Al—Tuwaitha? As long as the sanctions were in place, the inspectors would be able to confirm, albeit with great difficulty, that Saddam would not be able to use the material for his bomb building program. because we already knew that was there sparky.and i talked about this a long time ago on here....the wild speculation that neocon rick moran goes thru is only that,,,wild speculation based on his own paranoia. he insists that because this existed, it was proof that he was building a bomb, even tho it was monitored and couldn't be used for bomb building. his "albeit with great difficulty" is merely his editorializing, which is backed up by nothing but his own preconceived notions. he doesn't even take into consideration the time and sheer resources it takes to build one bomb. even if saddam did have plans, he was still at least 10 years out. there was no immediate threat. iran, who is WAY farther along in their programs, is still years away from anything tangible on the bomb front.
but in the end, none of that matters. joe wilson's findings don't even matter. the fact of the matter is that our government purposefully destroyed one of their own. valarie plame was the cia agent in charge of counter proliferation. she was in charge of tracking loose nukes and rogue nations looking for nuclear bombs. our governemt willingly and recklessly destroyed the lives of an entire network of spies...did i mention they were OUR SPIES? that is not patriotic or anything noble. it is treasonous and you defend it in the name of power and politics.
nitpicking the col and trying to rehash 1 mere technicality does nothing to diminish the real issues. and besides, ya'll claimed to have "disproven" all of his points, when he has made hundreds, at least. ya'll made a beef of a mere 3 points, and are now down to 1,and it is entirely irrelevant and speculative. ,,,big freakin whoop.
it's about time for you to put aside the rhetoric and politics and realize that these boobs in the white house are wolves in sheep's clothing. i'm not tellin ya to change your political philosophies at all, and ya don't seem to get that. put the law before the men instead of the men before the law. stop with the "lectures, legalisms and carefully worded denials" and wake up tho the stiff dose of truth that is this administration's reckless and unethical behavior.