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Pastimes : Rage Against the Machine

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To: James Calladine who wrote (974)7/9/2004 1:34:12 PM
From: Thomas M.Read Replies (1) of 1296
 
Congressional committee finds that the sky is orange:

<<< But the committee concluded that intelligence analysts were not pressured to change or tailor their views to support arguments for the invasion of Iraq. >>>

foxnews.com

Back on Planet Earth:

<<< Former and current intelligence officials said they felt a continual drumbeat, not only from Cheney and Libby, but also from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Feith, and less so from CIA Director George J. Tenet, to find information or write reports in a way that would help the administration make the case that going into Iraq was urgent.

"They were the browbeaters," said a former defense intelligence official who attended some of the meetings in which Wolfowitz and others pressed for a different approach to the assessments they were receiving. "In interagency meetings," he said, "Wolfowitz treated the analysts' work with contempt." >>>

washingtonpost.com.
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