Hill probers fault Iraq intelligence (WP)

[pinto]

By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus

The House and Senate intelligence committees have unearthed a series of failures in prewar intelligence on Iraq similar to those identified by former weapons inspector David Kay, leading them to believe that CIA analysts and their superiors did not seriously consider the possibility Saddam Hussein no longer possessed weapons of mass destruction, congressional officials said.


The committees, working separately for the past seven months, have determined that the CIA relied too heavily on circumstantial, outdated intelligence and became overly dependent on satellite and spy-plane imagery and communications intercepts.

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Dissenting report?

According to Republicans and Democrats on both committees, there is a strong possibility that the Democrats on both panels will write a dissenting report that includes a Democrats-only analysis of how the Bush administration exaggerated claims about Iraq's weapons programs in the months leading to war.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4101806/

[Gunit_Sangh]

1. Dem's report

I don't know if anybody in congress gets info from this website, but would it be helpfull to forward this list from the Center for American Progress

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24889

outlining all the news media reports that detail how the CIA, DIA, state department, AEC, and Air Force Intelligence kept refuting things that * was saying -- before we went to war?

Also, I reviewed the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace yesterday (it's so long it's hard to read it all in one setting). It compares what we knew (declassfied intelligence documents), vs what * was saying (as we know all lies), vs what we are finding.

I hope that the dems get this info and use it in combating the lies and spin * is spouting.

[never cry wolf]

2. Thanks for the link

Most of here knew of these reports before the war but they were mostly ignored or downplayed by the major media. This is a wonderful source!!

Welcome to DU!! :hi:

[TacticalPeek]

3. Great source.

This is the story that needs to get into LTTE's, talk call-ins, etc.

The intelligence failure was not at the CIA, it was between the ears of the Chickenhawk-in-Chief.

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