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To: Sully- who wrote (3514)	7/14/2004 3:30:51 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 35834

If A.C. Cowlings were presiding over O.J.'s trial, would you accept all of the conclusions? Some Republicans covered Bush's tracks. The committee's omission of the CIA Ombudsman's opinion is clear evidence of their bias. There were literally hundreds of analysts & managers who provided explicit testimony unequivocally establishing there was no pressure from the Bush Admin. Perhaps. On the other hand, there is this: <<< The report quotes the CIA's highest-ranking analyst as saying she instructed her underlings to write a "speculative piece" that would "lean far forward" and "stretch to the maximum the evidence" in response to senior policymakers' interest in links between Al Qaeda and Saddam [Hussein]. >>> And this: <<< And the Post quotes Anthony Cordesman, a national security specialist at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, on the overall effect of political pressure on intelligence officials. "I know of Defense Intelligence Agency [DIA] senior officers pressured out of the Pentagon, and younger analysts who left the community over political pressure," he said in an e-mailed assessment, noting that the committee also failed "to examine the fact that the intelligence community almost always responds to the user's demands and perceptions." >>> Message 20304158 Tom