Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   And yet you keep responding Date:   11/24/2015 9:06:32 PM

I did not say that the Commission covered anything up.  I said that some things may have been left out that might expose intelligence sources.  Do you understand that these things are staffed around in draft and people have the right to request edits because something might be taken out of context, or misunderstood or just not be factually correct or if there is a concern that there is information that is classified and not releasable to the public.  It would not surprise me to know that there is a classified version of the report that has never been publicly released.  I don't know that is the case, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Intelligence is referred to as an art;  it is highly subjective.  It is possible to certain information that supports your case and ignore that which does not. 

  It is not usual for the Undersecretary of Policy to decide to not use the information provided by the intelligence services because he doesn't agree with it, and create his own intelligence cell, which is what Doug Feith did.  I've heard this is in his book, although I did not read his book, because I have no respect for him.   This is why you are having such a problem, MM.  Because you don't understand how these things work.  If the Commission was satisfied with all that they found and wrote their report without any edits or omissions, well more power to them.  But that is not how those things usually go. 

I have no reason to lie about anything. I voted for Bush twice. I'm not in the media, I don't plan to write a book, and as time goes on, I care less and less about these things.  It's ancient history and just about all of the principles that were involved at the time have left and gone on to justify their decisions in their books.  It's ancient history and future historians will decide the rightness or the wrongness of these things.