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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (21349)	7/8/2004 9:32:36 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81101

Gustave > CIA attacked for 'gross exaggeration' of Saddam's WMD threat in official US report Amazing how the neocons stuffed the CIA. At first, when the CIA didn't want to come up with fictitious "evidence", the neocons opened the Office of Special Plans to by-pass the CIA and produce their own "evidence". And now the CIA is being held responsible for 'gross exaggeration' of Saddam's WMD threat when, in fact, they had nothing to do with it. newyorker.com >>There's nothing perfect about the C.I.A. But these guys in the Pentagon took it a step farther. Their complaint was that the C.I.A. and its analysts were too concerned about analyzing actual facts. What they wanted to do was take it to the next level: let's not just analyze what we actually know; let's make assumptions about what we think, and factor those assumptions in. It really is a very provocative way of thinking. They simply looked at what they wanted; when they saw things that supported the thesis they believed, they accepted them as factual.<< And for this the CIA is blamed! Unbelievable.