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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: epicure who wrote (5157)11/9/2005 9:28:42 PM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 542907
 
The committee interviewed over 200 individuals from the intelligence community. They could find no one out of that entire group that indicated they felt pressure directed by the administration with respect to the kind of intelligence they should produce."


It's not that the CIA was pressured to lie about their findings. They probably wouldn't have done that anyway since they are patriotic. It's that the accurate assessments were ignored, buried, and their authors went unpraised. Any assessment that supported the Cheney position was met with a "You're doing a heck of a job ... ", and the information was passed on to Senators and clueless George.

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