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Candidate Debates
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St. Anselm NH debate
June 13, 2011 |
Faith & Freedom Conference
June 4, 2011 |
South Carolina debate
May 5, 2011 |
NRA Conference
May 1, 2011 |
CPAC Conference
Feb. 11, 2011 |
Candidate Books
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Mitt Romney: The Man, His Values and His Vision, by Lisa Ray Turner and Kimberly Field
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Real Change, by Speaker Newt Gingrich
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The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul, published April 2008
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Tim Pawlenty: The Sam's Club Republican, by J. A. McClure
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The Audacity of Hope,
by Sen. Barack Obama (D, IL)
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Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, by Joe Biden
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Withdrawn Candidates
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The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump
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Do the Right Thing, by Mike Huckabee
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Leadership, autobiography by Rudolph Giuliani
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America by Heart, by Sarah Palin
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Book Reviews |
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(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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The Commission on the
Intelligence Capabilities
of the
United States
Regarding
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Report to the President of the United States
March 31, 2005
Click on an issue category below for more detailed excerpts. |
Foreign Policy
Libyan disarmament was a CIA success story.
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Government Reform
Rethink flawed Presidential daily intelligence briefings.
CIA yielded to conventional wisdom, not political pressure.
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Homeland Security
Innovate intelligence-gathering for future hard targets.
Assessments of al Qaida in Afghanistan in 2001 were accurate.
CIA needs more focus on counterterrorism.
So-called Legal Issues are myths; not real CIA hindrances.
Intelligence community shares information poorly.
CIA should work more with scientists to understand WMDs.
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War & Peace
CIA assessments ib Iraqi WMDs were all wrong.
Belief in Iraqi nukes was poor analysis of aluminum tubes.
Belief in Iraqi BWs was based on one unreliable person.
Belief in Iraqi CWs was based on flawed imagery.
Iraq never had delivery systems to attack US mainland.
CIA never questioned assumption that Saddam had WMDs.
Conclusions on Iran and North Korea are all classified.
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Click for quotations from other sources by:
- Charles_Robb, Commission chair
- John McCain, Commission member
- Laurence Silberman, Commision co-chair
- Other Commission members:
- Richard Levin
- Henry Rowen
- Walter Slocombe
- William Studeman
- Patricia Wald
- Charles Vest
- Lloyd Cutler
The above quotations are from the Report of the Commission on the
Intelligence Capabilities
of the
United States
Regarding
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Related books, debates, and candidates:
- 2005 report on Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Speeches on the eve of the handover of Iraqi sovereignty, May-June 2004
- State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III, by Bob Woodward
- Plan of Attack, by Bob Woodward
- Winning Modern Wars
- Iraq Survey Group report on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, October 2004
- Recommendations of the Iraq Study Group Report (the Baker-Hamilton Commission), released Dec. 6, 2006
- 2007 State of the Union speech, plus response by Sen. James Webb (D, VA)
- Against All Enemies:Inside America's War on Terror, by Richard A. Clarke
- Military investigations into prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq
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