Asked and answered, genius.
BTW, the DoD statement also said "The items listed in the classified annex were either raw reports or products of the CIA, the National Security Agency or, in one case, the Defense Intelligence Agency. The provision of the classified annex to the Intelligence Committee was cleared by other agencies and done with the permission of the intelligence community. The selection of the documents was made by DoD to respond to the committee’s question. The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions."
Sounds like a bit of a preemptive response to the likely whining from the left that the DoD was doing the jobs of other agencies by analyzing intelligence themselves and spoon-feeding it to congress without the agencies' blessings. As I'm sure you recall, you Bush-haters were in quite a tiff over that kind of thing a few months back.
In other words "We draw no conclusions, we made no analysis ourselves, we just gave the Senate what they asked for and if some reporter drew conclusions from it, that's on him." Which, in case you're too slow to pick up on it, also confirms the memo's existence and content. |
