President Passes the Buck on WMD

“As former secretary of state Colin L. Powell worked into the night in a New York hotel room, on the eve of his February 2003 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, CIA officers sent urgent e-mails and cables describing grave doubts about a key charge he was going to make.

On the telephone that night, a senior intelligence officer warned then-CIA Director George J. Tenet that he lacked confidence in the principal source of the assertion that Saddam Hussein’s scientists were developing deadly agents in mobile laboratories.”

TheStateOf: As a man who seemingly prides himself on honor and accountability, President Bush once again demonstrated his enduring hypocrisy by shifting the ultimate responsibility for WMD from himself to the CIA. As Commander-in-Chief, the President of the United States is ultimately responsible for all war decisions, especially the decision to go to war in the first place. The President has “passed the buck” to the CIA, and, of course, the mainstream media has willingly acquiesced.