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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (5149)11/9/2005 5:45:08 PM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (2) of 542836
 
"It is not provably false."....

Actually it is. And I have provided you with overwhelming
evidence to substantiate it, replete with links that support
what was asserted (in more than one reply here).

...."You think it is false- but it seems to me "provable" that Bush & Co put pressure on the intelligence agencies to give them the data that agreed with what they wanted (and to change, or ignore, the data they did not like). Hence the "crap" they served up- several times."....

Sigh.

Another fallback charge is that Bush, operating mainly through Cheney, somehow forced the CIA into telling him what he wanted to hear. Yet in its report of 2004, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee.... stated that it
     did not find any evidence that administration officials
attempted to coerce, influence, or pressure analysts to
change their judgments related to Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-
destruction capabilities.
The March 2005 report of the equally bipartisan Robb-Silberman commission, which investigated intelligence failures on Iraq, reached the same conclusion, finding
     no evidence of political pressure to influence the
intelligence community’s pre-war assessments of Iraq’s
weapons programs. . . . [A]nalysts universally asserted
that in no instance did political pressure cause them to
skew or alter any of their analytical judgments.
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