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Thompson v. Huckabee on Intel Report
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ABC News' Jake Tapper and Christine Byun Report: At a press conference in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., slammed his rival for the GOP presidential nomination, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, for earlier in the week not having heard that a new National Intelligence Estimate, or NIE, challenged the notion Iran had suspended its nuclear program in 2003.
"Not only is Iran the major long-term threat to our country, the nuclear program is the most important part of the Iran consideration," Thompson said. "For a presidential candidate not to know that and not to keep up with that is very surprising. These are the kinds of things I've been talking about all of my life."
Thompson then took direct aim at Huckabee, who despite meager campaign funds and a skeletal campaign staff, leads Thompson in polls of Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire.
"If the American people have other priorities, if they want someone who smiles a lot more than I do, or someone who is a better quipster than I am, who has no experience in these areas, that's for the American people to decide," Thompson said.
On Tuesday, more than a day after the Bush administration released the NIE, Huckabee admitted to journalists that he hadn't heard the report.
"I don't know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday," asked a reporter.
"I’m sorry?" Huckabee asked.
"The NIE report," the reporter explained, "the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it?"
"No," responded Huckabee.
"Have you heard of the finding?" he was asked.
"No," Huckabee said.
Huckabee has since been briefed on the NIE and has called the query an "ambush question."
December 7, 2007 in Giuliani, Rudy, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (2)
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Thompson makes me laugh as he buys bush's Intel report hook, line and sinker when it is only wrong by 4 years, and now we find out Bush knew they had stopped their nuclear program! What does surprise me is that Thompson didn't know that and leak it to the press. He has a habit of leaking confidential information, especially from the Special Prosecuter in the Watergate case to Richard Nixon. Thompson belongs in jail, not running as another George Bush!
Posted by: concordcan | Dec 7, 2007 3:46:25 PM
Is this the best the GOP can dredge up,after trolling the sea of greed,ignorance,intolerance,and corruption? 2 Bush clones that will make our country proud.Somebody call Roscoe P. Coltarne !
Posted by: Sharon White | Dec 7, 2007 4:00:21 PM
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