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To: LindyBill who wrote (479934)	4/1/2012 7:51:13 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	16 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793878

One C.I.A. analyst who had helped develop some of the intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction had a breakdown months after the Iraq war began; he had participated in the post-invasion hunt there that found the weapons did not exist. When he eventually was given a new assignment assessing Iran’s nuclear program, he confided a fear to colleagues: that the intelligence community might get it wrong again. “He felt enormous guilt that he had gotten us into the war,” said one former official who worked with the analyst. “He was afraid it was going to be déjà vu all over again.” Oh, so now that it is 10 years in the past, they admit that Bush acted on the intelligence he was given. There was no cherry-picking. They made up the entire "Bush lied" campaign to cover their own mistakes.

To: LindyBill who wrote (479934)	4/1/2012 10:49:54 AM
From: skinowski	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793878

>>> “Because intelligence officials are human beings, one cannot rule out the possibility of the tendency to overcompensate for past errors,” <<<<< Quick question -- if the guy is so depressed because of having screwed up the analysis of the Iraqi WMD's, then WHY do we have to depend on his evaluation of the Iranian nuke program? Is he the only analyst with half a brain in town? Don't we have enough generals fixated on fighting previous battles? Now we need to depend on neurotic CIA agents, obviously damaged by having made mistakes in the past? It sounds like the guy should have been fired, rather than being given ever greater responsibilities.