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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: John Sladek who wrote (343)2/4/2004 9:57:02 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) of 173976
 
Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong theatlantic.com

This is a long and fairly dispassionate account from somebody the warheads used to love to cite. My favorite snippet concerns what the White House operatives apparently thought was the proper way to use the CIA in their prewar propaganda campaign. The richness of the war propagandists now trying to pin the blame on the CIA is beyond words. Clip:

On many occasions Administration officials' requests for additional information struck the analysts as being made merely to distract them from their primary mission. Some officials asked for extensive historical analyses—a hugely time-consuming undertaking, for which most intelligence analysts are not trained. Requests were constantly made for detailed analyses of newspaper articles that conformed to the views of Administration officials—pieces by conservative newspaper columnists such as Jim Hoagland, William Safire, and George F. Will. These columnists may be highly intelligent men, but they have no claim to superior insight into the workings of Iraq, or to any independent intelligence-collection capabilities.

I'd expect that Hoagland, Safire, and Will got the "material" the CIA was supposed to be dutifully "verifying" directly from the Cheney / Rumsfeld war propaganda operation, but who can say? I'm sure W's "independent commission" will be sure to look into this aspect of CIA operations carefully, snort.
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