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To: combjelly who wrote (481532)	5/18/2009 12:10:51 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574855

When they release information that indicates the administration had ignored evidence that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, the CIA is composed of political hacks who will say anything for political points. This, of course, never happened. They didn't "ignore" any such evidence. Like intelligence agencies all over the West, they weighed the available information and concluded the WMD likely did exist. Your suggestion that CIA was politically swayed would constitute an undermining of not only the US intel-gathering apparatus, but that of every agency in the West who essentially agreed with the CIA's interpretation. I think the point you're missing is that intelligence gathering isn't so much of a science as it is an art. Intel is flowing in from innumerable sources at an astounding rate -- HUMINT and SIGINT -- into a huge hopper and someone has to sort it out as best they can -- what is relevant, what is reliable, what is not. Ultimately, someone has to make a judgment about it. All of the Western intel agencies made the same judgment. And had done so for years, e.g., Clinton's CIA made the same judgment as Bush's -- so the idea it was a political process is just so much poppycock.