No Political Influence On Intelligence Process
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A popular insinuation of the left and liberal media is that there was political influence on the intelligence process, the commission report on weaponds of mass destruction specifically found there was no political influence at all.
WMD Commission Co-Chairmen, Former Senator Chuck Robb and Judge Laurence Silberman, were on CNN's Wolf Blitzer Reports yesterday, and had this to say on that issue:
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BLITZER: Well, I'm still a little confused. Were these analysts influenced by the political rhetoric that was coming out of the administration?
SILBERMAN: We did not find a shred of indication that that was true.
ROBB: The question that we investigated -- and we investigated it very carefully, because we were very much aware of the importance of this particular question -- is, did any member of the intelligence community make any changes, yield to any demands by the executive branch or anyone in a policy-making position, to change their views, their conclusions, their findings, whatever the case may be?
Did anyone from the executive branch or any organization outside of the intelligence community request that changes be made? And, in each case, we followed every lead that we had, including all those that have been reported. And the answer in each and every case was no.
transcripts.cnn.com
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Will this silence the left and the mainstream media from believing there was influence? I would guess not.
Posted by Matt
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