Dubious Integrity
Cynicism is defined as: “showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one’s actions.”
Ray McGovern a former CIA analyst, with 27 years of experience, considers the way Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld conjured up a nuclear threat in the form of that famous mushroom cloud was the height of cynicism. Recently, McGovern publicly confronted Donald Rumsfeld concerning Rumsfeld’s allegation that there was evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Iraq. The importance of Rumsfeld’s claim was that it suggested Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. Rumsfeld had called the evidence bulletproof, when in reality it was nonexistent.
Rumsfeld maintained Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons. However, Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix remarked that the White House maintained 100 percent certainty that the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction existed based on zero percent evidence. Furthermore, six months before Iraq was invaded the Defense Intelligence Agency said, “we have no strong evidence there are chemical weapons, and there's still less evidence that they are able to manufacture them.”
The intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was make up in response to the wishes of Cheney, who visited CIA headquarters ten times. A very malleable CIA Director George Tenet succumbed to the vice president's wishes to magnify the threat. McGovern believes the process was corrupted, the evidence was politicized and that Congress was lied to, in order to get the war approved.
When asked what he thought about General Michael Hayden’s nomination to head the CIA; McGovern pointed out that Hayden did as he was told, although, he was fully aware that he was not bound to obey an illegal order. McGovern believes Hayden should have refused to follow the illegal order and ask for reassignment, when told that the Bush regime had developed a plan to monitor American citizens, without going to Congress and with total disregard for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act laws. Instead, Hayden dismantled all the standards that the National Security Agency had religiously aspired to.
McGovern said; “Gen. Hayden is the wrong candidate to head the CIA not because he wears the uniform, but because he has demonstrated dubious integrity. Bush claims Hayden has impeccable credentials. What Bush means is he'll do what he's told.”
The following Senators voted against Hayden's nomination:
Bayh (D-IN) Cantwell (D-WA) Clinton (D-NY) Dayton (D-MN) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Menendez (D-NJ) Obama (D-IL) Specter (R-PA) Wyden (D-OR)
Ray McGovern a former CIA analyst, with 27 years of experience, considers the way Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld conjured up a nuclear threat in the form of that famous mushroom cloud was the height of cynicism. Recently, McGovern publicly confronted Donald Rumsfeld concerning Rumsfeld’s allegation that there was evidence of ties between al Qaeda and Iraq. The importance of Rumsfeld’s claim was that it suggested Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. Rumsfeld had called the evidence bulletproof, when in reality it was nonexistent.
Rumsfeld maintained Saddam Hussein had chemical weapons. However, Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix remarked that the White House maintained 100 percent certainty that the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction existed based on zero percent evidence. Furthermore, six months before Iraq was invaded the Defense Intelligence Agency said, “we have no strong evidence there are chemical weapons, and there's still less evidence that they are able to manufacture them.”
The intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was make up in response to the wishes of Cheney, who visited CIA headquarters ten times. A very malleable CIA Director George Tenet succumbed to the vice president's wishes to magnify the threat. McGovern believes the process was corrupted, the evidence was politicized and that Congress was lied to, in order to get the war approved.
When asked what he thought about General Michael Hayden’s nomination to head the CIA; McGovern pointed out that Hayden did as he was told, although, he was fully aware that he was not bound to obey an illegal order. McGovern believes Hayden should have refused to follow the illegal order and ask for reassignment, when told that the Bush regime had developed a plan to monitor American citizens, without going to Congress and with total disregard for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act laws. Instead, Hayden dismantled all the standards that the National Security Agency had religiously aspired to.
McGovern said; “Gen. Hayden is the wrong candidate to head the CIA not because he wears the uniform, but because he has demonstrated dubious integrity. Bush claims Hayden has impeccable credentials. What Bush means is he'll do what he's told.”
The following Senators voted against Hayden's nomination:
Bayh (D-IN) Cantwell (D-WA) Clinton (D-NY) Dayton (D-MN) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Menendez (D-NJ) Obama (D-IL) Specter (R-PA) Wyden (D-OR)
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