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they have to resign. powell said much later in later years of course he didn t have his own cia, he didn t have any hard evidence that what our cia and many other countries national security organizations contended, that saddam hussein did have dangerous weapons of mass destruction, but he didn t, as it turned out, he didn t have the evidence that was wrong, so he gives the speech because the administration, even vice president cheney, who was deadly against many of powell s positions, knew that he was the person that everyone was going to believe to make the case that the u.s. should invade iraq. and he had misgives about it but he said he s do it. and he had behind him if you look at the video of that speech, the man sit beg hind is george tenet, then the cia director. ten net didn t want to do it but
that would be the intelligence community would not necessarily like. oh, it wouldn t like it at all. it would be a terrible thing. i have the good fortune of not being a lawyer but i am an intelligence officer. and if there are indications of associations of foreign intelligence services, then you have to investigate them. this is classic standard counter intelligence work. it s not spying. calling that spying is stupid talk. also dangerous because it interferes with the procedure functions of the county intelligence and law enforcement authorities and intelligence authorities. of the united states. it would be a terrible thing for future operations and the security of the country were the trump representatives to succeed in breaking down yet another barrier in procedure functioning of national security organizations. traditional separations. i want to move on to a new york times story that you re very aware of here, benjamin.
work inside of our national security organizations, the fbi, the cia, and the others, they re professionals. and they re going to go about their job. we need to let them follow the trail where the trail leads. this was obviously a complex plot. these two brothers, the tsarnaev brothers, did not do this by themselves. they will follow the trail. they will be professional and methodical in their investigation. we need to let them do that. whatever time it takes. we need to we need to allow that to happen. we do need to find out what happened in this case, the attack in boston. mike: i appreciate that response, claire, because i think sometimes it s so easy for us to want to point a finger. the fact is, i deeply appreciate the highly trained the incredible professional personnel at both cia and the fbi, atf, all of these
work inside of our national security organizations, the fbi, the cia, and the others, they re professionals. and they re going to go about their job. we need to let them follow the trail where the trail leads. this was obviously a complex plot. these two brothers, the tsarnaev brothers, did not do this by themselves. they will follow the trail. they will be professional and methodical in their investigation. we need to let them do that. whatever time it takes. we need to we need to allow that to happen. we do need to find out what happened in this case, the attack in boston. mike: i appreciate that response, claire, because i think sometimes it s so easy for us to want to point a finger. the fact is, i deeply appreciate the highly trained the incredible professional personnel at both cia and the fbi, atf, all of these