DFW Star-Telegram: Report to blast CIA on Iraq intelligence

[BlueEyedSon]

Asked about the upcoming report, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the committee, said, "The executive was ill-served by the intelligence community." The intelligence was sometimes sloppy and inconclusive, he said. "That's a concern I have with the total report" on Iraq.

"I worry about the credibility of the intelligence community," said Roberts, who added that he was concerned about demoralizing the intelligence agencies when intensive counterterrorism operations are going on overseas. Still, he insisted, "If there's stuff on the fan, we have to get the fan cleaned."

Despite the progress it has made since June in poring over 19 volumes of classified material, the committee is deeply divided over investigating how the Bush administration used intelligence in its public statements about Iraq.

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/7092972.htm

Y'know, I was wondering who messed up on that Iraq intelligence.....

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Hanging the CIA out to dry

Considering that Poppy was the head of the CIA, you have to wonder what kinds of dynamics are at play these days that would compel the CIA to take a major hit to get Junior off the hook for his stupidity.

Imagine the simultaneous multiple cracking open of hundreds of cans of Whup-Ass ...

... the grassy knoll is going to need Lawn Doctor.

--bkl

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. VERY dumb move on the part of anyone to try to blame the CIA for the...

...multiple lies told to the American people by the Bushies to get us into a war with Iraq. Herr WH Squatmeister told us that the war was over...but the American bodies continue to pile up.

I'll go one step farther...what additional lies were told to the American people to justify the attack on Afghanistan? By the way, we're still there, and it's getting worse.

It will be interesting to see how the CIA responds to this one.

[JeebusH]

3. if the CIA responds like typical Republicans, it will be ....

"Thank you sir, may I have another?

[farmbo]

4. Cheney's Cowboys were piping cherry-picked intel straight to Bush..

...completely by-passing the professionals in the CIA.


See Seymour Hersh's "The Stovepipe" in this week's New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031027fa_fact

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. The problem wasn't bad intelligence

it was how the WH and Pentagon manipulated and lied about the intelligence to make their case for war. It seems that there was a lot of good intelligence that was ignored because Bu$hCo didn't want to hear anything that would deter them from their goals.

[hang a left]

6. I think that we are all very aware of what was done with the

intelligence that was gathered from all the "communities"

What I find most interesting is the timing of this announcement. It seems that there may be a tit for tat going on here.

[reprobate]

7. Big mistake. Whitehouse war with CIA escalation is unwise.

Each time the junta strikes out at cia, they get hit right back. You know the spooks have info that rove doesn't know about. Wonder how much worse the next spook leak will be to the white house.

Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.

[MGKrebs]

8. It would be humurous if it weren't so serious.

The CIA assessments were apparently correct. The White House ignored them, and invented their own "intelligence", and now is blaming the CIA?

Totally bizarre.

[progressiverealist]

9. Tenet will probably be a good soldier and fall on his sword again...

but I'm not sure the same will occur within the rank-and-file CIA.

I can't believe Rove's play on this is to scapegoat the CIA. I would have expected the "Clinton's Penis" defense or something along those lines.