Yes members if the Intelligence committee and the very top leaders of Congress had access to the 2002 NIE.
This would be a nice story except it contradicts what the NYT printed. The Administration made the entire report available to all 535 members of congress prior to the vote. Most Democrats chose not to see it.
They were asked WHY they did not speak out about the intelligence that did not agree with what Bush and Cheney were telling Congress and the American people. Their answer was very simple-- IT WAS CLASSIFIED
This is fantastic! You are saying that because the report was classified they could not say that the report was a lie? That they were forced to vote knowing that it was wrong and knowing that people were going to die for this lie? Is it not the responsibility of Congress to handle the spending of money? If the report was wrong and they knew it all they had to do was cut off funds and say why without giving away classified material. What you suggest is that all 535 members of Congress are culpable for gross criminal negligence, but you want to charge the President? POLITICAL HACK!
WE now have this new IG Report, the claims of three former CIA Section Chiefs that said Bush CHERRY PICKED the Intelligence and the confirmation of General Zinni who saw ALL the intelligence produced by both military and non-military intelligence agencies.
You keep bringing up this crap. What section chiefs? What sections did they work?
Oh and if memory serves General Zinni was retired before the war started and was sent to calm down the Israeli Lebanon situation not the Iraqi situation. He failed and faded on out of the spot light.