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President Defends Declassification of Pre-War Iraq Intel

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Follow-up to April 9, 2006 posting, Reports Substantiate WH Plan to Discredit Iraq War Critic Via Plame CIA Leak, President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, April 10, 2006:

  • “…after we liberated Iraq, there was questions in people’s minds about the basis on which I made statements, in other words, going into Iraq. And so I decided to declassify the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] for a reason. I wanted to see — people to see what some of those statements were based on. So I wanted to see — I wanted people to see the truth and thought it made sense for people to see the truth. And that’s why I declassified the document. You can’t talk about — you’re not supposed to talk about classified information, and so I declassified the document. I thought it was important for people to get a better sense for why I was saying what I was saying in my speeches. And I felt I could do so without jeopardizing ongoing intelligence matters, and so I did.”
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