Ray McGovern, ret. CIA analyst, hammers 'em again......

[Postman]

Although it was clear to us that much of the intelligence on Iraq had been cooked to the recipe of policy, not until the Senate report did we know that the skewing included outright lies.

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/mcgovern.php?articleid=3015

[LittleApple81]

1. Excellent article. Thanks. n/t

[BrotherBuzz]

2. Hmmm, I lost the office pool on 'Anonymous'

I secretly thought it was Ray McGovern and even played with the idea that Will Pitt had a hand in the book Imperial Hubris. Am I the last person to learn 'Anonymous's' real name?

[Karenina]

3. I just watched "UNCOVERED"

Ray McGovern cracked me up. I want to have his love child!!! ;-)

[indigobusiness]

4. It stings and it stinks

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Roberts seemed at pains to lay the blame on a "flawed system," but a close reading of the committee report yields the unavoidable conclusion that CIA analysis can no longer be assumed to be honest – to be aimed at getting as close to the truth as one can humanly get. For those of you cynics about to smirk, I can only tell you – believe it or not – that truth was in fact the currency of analysis in the CIA in which I was proud to serve.

Aberrations like the Tonkin Gulf cave-in notwithstanding, the analysis directorate was widely known as the unique place in Washington where one could normally go and expect a straight answer unencumbered by any political agenda. And we were hard into some very controversial – often critical – national security issues. It boggles my mind how any president, and particularly one whose father headed the CIA, could expect to be able, without that capability, to make intelligent judgments based on unbiased fact.

It is said that truth is the first casualty of war. Sadly, in the case of Iraq, even before the war, truth took a back seat to a felt need to snuggle up to power – to stay in good standing with a president and his advisers, all well known to be hell-bent on war on Iraq.

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