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To: GST who wrote (108248)	7/26/2003 10:06:27 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I suspect that the handling of information sourced from parties with vested interests lies at or near the center of the current dispute over the handling and interpretation of pre-war information. Any such information passed up by an intelligence agency would normally be accompanied by caveats detailing the vested interests of the source and the potential for distortion; that's standard practice and has been for ages. I wonder if certain people decided to ignore the warnings. I think that likely, for the same reason that I think it likely that distorted information aimed at encouraging an invasion was provided by Iraqi exiles and by Israeli intelligence. People generally act in accordance with their own interests. It was in the interest of the exiles and the Israelis to provide distorted information, and it would have been in the interest of those who sought war to ignore the possibility that such information was distorted. I do not know that these things happen, but experience of human nature leads me to suspect that they probably did, to some still undetermined extent.