'No President has lied so baldly and so often and so demonstrably'

"The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute it, it's never the same. Your credibility never recovers.

"Watching what has happened with Iraq over the past several months has been like watching your daughter being raped."

Such is an indication of the extraordinary depth of feeling within the US intelligence community as the Bush administration's basis for the war in Iraq - the weapons of mass destruction, the dark hint of links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida - has been shown to have been built on air.

Mr McGovern worked near the very top of his profession, giving direct advice to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon era and preparing the President's daily security brief for Ronald Reagan. Now he is co-founder of a group of former CIA employees called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, or Vips for short.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=461946

Journalism is dead in the USA.

Dan Rather, is it TOO MUCH to ask that you pull your head out of Bush's ass for even a minute?

While you're at it Danny, wash that brown lipstick off your lips!

have 2 go offshore 4 opinions of US intelligence people?

And, like most liberals, I never thought I'd be saying that about the CIA. More from the article:

It will, Mr McGovern believes, take a change of president and a change of CIA director to even begin to repair the damage done by what he sees as an overt politicisation of the intelligence business. But even that may not be enough.

"Unless what has happened in the past year and a half is recognised as a scandal, in which the CIA has been badly abused, then there's no hope," he said. "I pin my hopes mostly on the press these days. Turns out, surprise surprise, that even the US press doesn't like to be lied to."

"The Lies of gwbush" by David Corn(Washington editor of "The Nation") & his website .. http://www.bushlies.com