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To: epicure who wrote (5157)	11/9/2005 9:28:42 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542902

The committee interviewed over 200 individuals from the intelligence community. They could find no one out of that entire group that indicated they felt pressure directed by the administration with respect to the kind of intelligence they should produce." It's not that the CIA was pressured to lie about their findings. They probably wouldn't have done that anyway since they are patriotic. It's that the accurate assessments were ignored, buried, and their authors went unpraised. Any assessment that supported the Cheney position was met with a "You're doing a heck of a job ... ", and the information was passed on to Senators and clueless George. TP

To: epicure who wrote (5157)	11/10/2005 11:36:44 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542902

I realize that Democrats continue to ask for do-overs when one thorough investigation fails to achieve the results they want. Senator Rockefeller & his liberal peers got it after their baseless whining in 2004. The March 2005 Robb-Silberman Commission On The Intelligence Capabilities Of The United States Regarding Weapons Of Mass Destruction came to the same conclusion as the Senate Intelligence Committee's findings: pages 50-51: "The Commission found no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments of Iraq's weapons programs. As we discuss in detail in the body of our report, analysts universally asserted that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments. We conclude that it was the paucity of intelligence and poor analytical tradecraft, rather than political pressure, that produced the inaccurate pre-war intelligence assessments." wmd.gov