Slightly OT, but...
This is provably false. There are far too many differences between the original assessments coming out of the intelligence services and the documents given to Congress for this statement to stand.
There are many, many cases in which doubts and qualifying statements were removed from intelligence information before it was presented to the Congressional oversight committees. Why information that tended to create doubt was removed I leave up to you to decide, but there is ample proof that it happened.
To say that "Congress had the same information the President did" is simply, provably untrue. They didn't. They had the information the President wanted them to have, and that appears to have been a subset of all the information. Specifically, a subset that would lead the reader to a conclusion that supported the Executive's proposed course of action.
--Shannon
When the President gave to the Congress all the information he had (which he did)
This is provably false. There are far too many differences between the original assessments coming out of the intelligence services and the documents given to Congress for this statement to stand.
There are many, many cases in which doubts and qualifying statements were removed from intelligence information before it was presented to the Congressional oversight committees. Why information that tended to create doubt was removed I leave up to you to decide, but there is ample proof that it happened.
To say that "Congress had the same information the President did" is simply, provably untrue. They didn't. They had the information the President wanted them to have, and that appears to have been a subset of all the information. Specifically, a subset that would lead the reader to a conclusion that supported the Executive's proposed course of action.
--Shannon