"(CNN) -- The Bush administration disregarded the expertise of the intelligence community, politicized the intelligence process and used unrepresentative data in making the case for war, a former CIA senior analyst alleged.
In an article published on Friday in the journal Foreign Affairs, Paul R. Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to 2005, called the relationship between U.S. intelligence and policymaking "broken."
"In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made," Pillar wrote.
Although the Clinton administration and other countries' governments also believed that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass destruction, they supported sanctions and weapons inspections as means to contain the threat, he said."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/02/10/iraq.intelligence/index.htmlThis has probably been posted before, but in the midst of all the attention directed to Brownie this morning, I think it's important to post again to make sure it doesn't get missed.
Yet another example of BushCo politics trumping intelligence facts. I've been reading a little bit about this elsewhere, and it looks like we actually do have some intelligence people who really know what they're doing. It's comforting to me after watching the massive incompetence of the Bush Administration. We have good and decent people in our government who are getting it done - the failure belongs solely at the door of Bush and his minions. BushCo: Don't like the facts? Lie, cheat, and steal your way into 'puke propaganda heaven. Lordie, could they have screwed things up any worse if they tried?
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