Laurence Silberman Quotes

• In recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush 'lied us into war in Iraq.'

  →

  Laurence Silberman

  War   Iraq   President  

  "The Dangerous Lie That 'Bush Lied'" by Laurence Silberman, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 9, 2015.

  1786

• Judge Laurence Silberman explains the origins of his ruling against the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. He explains, 'It wasn't a right to bear arms granted by the Constitution, it was a right that was protected by the Constitution.'

  →

  Laurence Silberman

  Judging   Arms   Bears  

  5037

• The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction - a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on any subject.

  →

  Laurence Silberman

  Mass Destruction   Views   Community  

  2840

• In any event, it is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised. It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam.

  →

  Laurence Silberman

  War   Iraq   People  

  4630

• The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

  →

  Laurence Silberman

  Mass Destruction   Iraq   Community  

  Bush and Co-Chairs of the Commission on Intelligence Capabilities Press Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. March 31, 2005.

  5107

You May Also Like:

Thomas B. Griffith

Lloyd Cutler

Chuck Robb

Ron Fournier

Janice Rogers Brown

Viet D. Dinh