Reply #77: I like people to be skeptical but this scoop article

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makes some serious, and I believe false, assumptions about the Intelligence Community. Here is a snip

Yet somehow the intelligence bureaucracy, (it seems, we are being told) is different; it appears as if the CIA and co. was trying to tell the truth about the WMD/yellowcake claims, but were somehow manipulated or prevented from doing their job.

But wait: of all the elements within the military-industrial-complex, is not the intelligence bureaucracy among the most firmly committed to the manufacture of war -and the lies necessary to achieve it? Have not its agents consistently proven themselves to be the bastions of deception and intrigue?

The "Valerie Plame indictment" is unravelling within the context of an assertion that the intelligence community is an entity standing somewhat at odds or even independent of the political games going on in Washington.

Is this true?

Were the analysts prevented from doing their job?

Or does "the company" merely want it to appear that way?


The author is assuming that the CIA is a monolithic beast with everybody walking in lockstep. Nothing could be further from the truth. There have always been divisions within the CIA and they have become more glaring in recent times in the Intelligence Community in general. The authors failure to see this renders the rest of the article moot.