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who's going to survive in the aftermath?
Fri Jul 25 13:42:24 2003
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[[Good article, to show the intense differences among the different departments.]]

"In a signal of administration concern over the controversy, two senior Pentagon officials yesterday held a news conference to challenge allegations that they pressured the CIA or other agencies to slant intelligence for political reasons. 'I know of no pressure,' said Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary for policy. 'I know of nobody who pressured anybody.'"

[[Since Feith was in the pressure group, that would be like asking the fox to admit he was minding the chickens.]]

"Feith said a special Pentagon office to analyze intelligence in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks did not necessarily focus on Iraq but came up with 'some interesting observations about the linkages between Iraq and al Qaeda.'"

[[Partly true. They were also plotting against Syria, Jordan, Iran, and other countries as well.]]

"Tenet has asked four retired senior CIA analysts to review all the major prewar intelligence analyses of Hussein's weapons of mass destruction distributed to top policymakers before March 20, when the fighting began. They plan to compare what was written with postwar intelligence data."

[[Uh oh. Every claim the Bush regime made to build the case for war against Hussein has wound up inaccurate or false. Those four guys are *really* going to be under pressure.

In the "interest of national security" there probably won't be any smoking guns on display -- but it's pretty obvious from all the reporting that the neocons used a lot of bad sources. To establish the doctrine of pre-emption, this is not a very good case study. In fact, it actually lowers the status of US intelligence in the eyes of the world.

That is not good policy.]]