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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (21054)	3/14/2003 11:38:49 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 25898

The LA Times writes, "In what sources described as an escalating 'war,' top officials at the Pentagon and elsewhere have bombarded CIA analysts with criticism and calls for revisions on such key questions as whether Iraq has ties to the Al Qaeda terrorist network, sources said... Analysts are increasingly resentful of what they perceive as efforts to contaminate the intelligence process. 'Analysts feel more politicized and more pushed than many of them can ever remember,' said an intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity... Evidence of the differences between the agency and the White House surfaced publicly this week when CIA Director George J. Tenet sent a letter to lawmakers saying the Iraqi president is unlikely to strike the United States unless provoked." Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-intelligence, says, "Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA." MI6 and other British intelligence agencies have also complained that the Blair government has been pushing them to exaggerate the evidence on on Iraq. The Blair government has resorted to a dossier of plagiarized material, including a paper relating to the build-up to the 1991 Gulf War by Ibrahim al-Marashi which was rewritten to exaggerate its findings.