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Senator Levin asks: "Please Stand With Us and Demand the Tru

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Senator Levin asks: "Please Stand With Us and Demand the Tru

Postby admin » Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:41 pm

Senator Levin asks: "Please Stand With Us and Demand the Truth« Thread Started on Nov 19, 2005, 4:38am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Senator Levin asks: "Please Stand With Us and Demand the Truth"Posted by Rose SidingAdded to homepage Thu Nov 17th 2005, 11:05 AM ET read source: http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... x5382186If you want to know how the Bush Administration exaggerated and distorted intelligence before the war in Iraq, then you need to stand with Senate Democrats today and demand the truth.http://www.dscc.org/demandthetruth As the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee and a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I have studied the statements and arguments made by the Bush Administration prior to going to war. Too many of those statements and arguments were exaggerated or were not supported by the assessments of the Intelligence Community at the time they were made.For example, during their drive to war, representatives of the White House repeatedly claimed that Iraq provided Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, al Qaeda, with chemical and biological weapons training. But Bush Administration officials knew at the time that claim was based on information from an informant that the Defense Department's own intelligence agency had concluded was probably intentionally misleading us. Bush Administration officials also said before the war that there was a confirmed report that the lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi intelligence officer met in Prague before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our country. Vice President Cheney, for example, said that this meeting "was pretty well confirmed," but our own Central Intelligence Agency doubted the meeting ever occurred.What other Administration statements and arguments for war exaggerated or distorted the intelligence? That's what Senate Democrats want to find out. Please stand with us on behalf of the American people as we demand the truth.http://www.dscc.org/demandthetruth If you have a specific question that you'd like to see the White House answer, let us know so Senate Democrats can insist on answers to questions of the American people. We are pressing the Republicans who control the Senate to fulfill their constitutional oversight duty and carry out an investigation of whether intelligence was distorted by the Bush Administration officials in their determination to lead us to war.Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid asked me to serve on the bipartisan panel negotiating the terms of this investigation and I assure you we won't settle for anything less than full accountability.So I hope you will stand with Senate Democrats and demand the truth.Sincerely,Carl LevinP.S. Our leaders must be held accountable to ALL Americans. Please forward this message to your friends and family and ask them to stand with us Senate Democrats and demand the truth about how we were lead to war in Iraq.
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