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To: Sully- who wrote (3493)	7/13/2004 2:38:06 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

An example of Senator Pat Roberts' bias: He snubbed the one intelligence agency that resisted Bush/Cheney's pressure to lie about Iraq. Punished for Honest Intelligence No Skunks Allowed By Ray McGovern counterpunch.org

To: Sully- who wrote (3493)	7/13/2004 2:42:09 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

Apparently you did not completely read my reply. Although most of it was designed to distract, I did read it. This was an "opinion" from the last section of the report in a segment titled, "Additional Views". It was not considered part of the report itself ... blah blah blah ... This was not the opinion of a biased Senator. It was the opinion of a person whose job is to provide opinions without political bias - the CIA Ombudsman. Tom

To: Sully- who wrote (3493)	7/13/2004 2:49:58 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 35834

By the way, this isn't news. The intelligence agencies were screaming about the pressure that Cheney & Co. were putting on them. I was just highlighting the CIA Ombudsman because that is a new revelation. <<< ... With Cheney taking the lead in the administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction, the visits by the vice president and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here," one senior agency official said yesterday ... ... Former and current intelligence officials said they felt a continual drumbeat, not only from Cheney and Libby, but also from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, Feith, and less so from CIA Director George J. Tenet, to find information or write reports in a way that would help the administration make the case that going into Iraq was urgent. "They were the browbeaters," said a former defense intelligence official who attended some of the meetings in which Wolfowitz and others pressed for a different approach to the assessments they were receiving. "In interagency meetings," he said, "Wolfowitz treated the analysts' work with contempt ... >>> washingtonpost.com Tom