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Dennis Kucinich: “It would be more than instructive. It would be classified information if the Vice President manipulated CIA analysts to…”

On the recordJune 25, 2003
It would be more than instructive. It would be classified information if the Vice President manipulated CIA analysts to disseminate false, raw unreliable information to justify a war in Iraq. I am hopeful no one is saying that and I am not aware that the administration has asserted executive privilege in an attempt to shield such information from the Congress. I am not aware of that at all. Maybe that has happened privately, but I am not aware that such an assertion can be private and that in fact such an assertion has been made.
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Dennis Kucinich
Independent · Ohio

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Discussing the potential manipulation of CIA information regarding the Iraq war.

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