Listen carefully to this, it is confirmationof what I have been saying all along. The dysadministration has largely succeeded, by repeating the lie often enough, in convincing the public that it was faulty intelligence about WMD that led us to war, and that it was the intelligence establishment’s failure. In reality, the intelligence analysts were marginalized and Cheney heard just what he wanted to hear and ignored the rest. I am no fan of the U.S.’s covert intelligence agencies, but in this case they are the aggrieved victims and honest speakers of truth to power. The real purpose of Porter Goss’ housecleaning at the CIA is to prevent some renegade career intelligence officers from turning their dirty tricks on the Bush Cabal in retaliation, and they would be justified to do so.
Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq
First time that such a senior intelligence officer has so directly and publicly condemned the administration’s handling of intelligence: “The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of “cherry-picking” intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.” (Washington Post)
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