Why does the media pretend ignorance about CIA intelligence on Iraq?

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The old joke about "military intelligence" being an oxymoron was never more appropriate than when discussing "intelligence" and the Bush administration. We all predicted his failure so it comes as no surprise. What continues to surprise me is the stupidity, or rather willful naivete, of the American press.

The media acts as if the Bush cabal's failure of intelligence is a grand mystery when the facts are clearly available. One of the only things clearly visible in this "administration" is the chain of events surrounding the use of intelligence in the rush to war.

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld set up their own intelligence apparatus specifically because they felt the CIA was underestimating the Iraqi threat. This is a common thread in Cheney's career, the hubris of a mildly intelligent man thinking he knows more than the professionals. There is the famous story of his attempts to micro manage the first Iraq war as Secretary of Defense. His notions were so pedestrian as to embarrass the Generals he was "instructing" and to their credit, he was ignored. Rumsfeld attempted the same thing in this second conflict against the impenetrable and dangerous Saddam Hussein.

The special Nixonian intelligence service they attempted to run gave them what they wanted and the fact that the press and our representatives continue to pressure the CIA into confessing to mistakes it did not make is like an analogy to the Iraq war itself, the demand is for the CIA to turn over a "WMD" mistake when, in fact, it did its job only to be outflanked by a couple of overreaching chicken-hawks.

This is public knowledge available in many magazines and newspapers of large circulation. We shouldn't be surprised that the man who sits in the White House boasts of not reading the newspaper but the fact that few in the press seem to be able to read is a bit disheartening.

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1. Because they don't feel it's in their best interest to tell the truth.

It's a republican controlled media state that we are living in. Why would anyone expect them to tell the true, cold, hard facts about their usurper king in the White House? They'd be shooting themselves in the foot if they did. Plus hell, name one of them with the guts, dignity, decency, and spine to admit that they'd been taken by this bunch of thugs.

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2. My point is that they are telling the truth

but then conveniently forget that when they get on TV.

We need to hold their feet to the fire. They aren't Republicans, they are greedy narcissistic fuckers that respond to pressure.