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In reply to the discussion: The Young Turks are now running hit pieces on Mueller to help Trump [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)The facts stated in the report are accurate, even if they're open to differing interpretations.
You point out that the FBI had no jurisdiction here. That occurred to me as well, and I was wondering why Mueller was joining the cheerleading for the war. I admit that I wasn't wondering strongly enough to get the full context of his testimony. One question would be what, if anything, the FBI Director could add beyond an assumption that the responsible agencies were correct.
Incidentally, you state the assumption as "that the CIA/NSA etc were correct in their conclusion that Saddam had WMD." IIRC that was what Bush and his coconspirators were saying, but the administration line was a misleading summary of what the intelligence reports actually said. If Mueller didn't look at the actual reports, then it would be more accurate to say that he assumed the truth of the Bush/Cheney statements about the reports. At the time of his testimony, the reasons to question that assumption were probably not as clear as they are now.