"WASHINGTON – A former Energy Department intelligence chief who agreed with the White House claim that Iraq had reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms program was awarded a total of $20,500 in bonuses during the build-up to the war, WorldNetDaily has learned. "

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34042

Smells like a pay-off to me.

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Rider, a long-time human resources bureaucrat, served nine months as acting director of Energy's intelligence office. He stepped down in February, the month before the war.


Make a quick buck and leave... Either he couldn't handle living with supporting a war and the pay off wasn't high enough, or the other option is that he was enstated to provide a certain piece of "Intelligence" for the Bush administration and then had to leave after he completed his assignmnet....

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