Former CIA Director George Tenet on 60 Minutes tonight said several interesting things, but here’s the best: The standard of proof for going to war should be beyond a reasonable doubt b/c obviously the preponderance standard is only good enough when life and liberty are not at stake.
Ok, so Tenet did not say that exactly. He said something like the amount of evidence he had showing that Iraq had nuclear or biological weapons might have allowed him to win a case in civil court, but not criminal court. In other words, we went to war on a preponderance of evidence. Really, really bad idea.
[tags]war, Iraq[/tags]
