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| Roberts: News Will Break on Saddam’s Weapons Program |
| 2003-07-03 |
| There's been much speculation here and elsewhere about Iraqi WMDs. How accounts from the field never seemed to get confirmed and then dried up alltogether. Many theories have been proposed to account for this. I'd like to propose my own theory. You aren't hearing about WMDs because they are being classified as soon as they are found. The few stories that made it into the press were all from young captains and lieutenants who have now had big chunks torn out of their asses and will never talk to a reporter again on pain of losing their security clearances (and thereby losing their commissions). WASHINGTON - The Bush administration and the U.S. intelligence community have had some success in finding Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, Sen. Pat Roberts said Thursday. Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters on a telephone conference call that he couldn't go into detail because the news is classified. "It's classified information now - I am urging the administration and the intelligence community to make at least portions of that public," Roberts said. "We've had some success; I'm sorry I can't go into detail about that." Roberts, R-Kan., traveled this week to Iraq and the Middle East with members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. [snip] |
| Posted by:11A5S |