Spy Chiefs Warn PM: "Don't Blame Us For The War"

Do you suppose our own "spy chief" will follow suit?

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BRITISH intelligence chiefs launched a pre-emptive strike against Tony Blair last night, ahead of the publication of the Hutton report, and blamed the government for pressurising them into cherry-picking intelligence to justify the war on Iraq.

The UK’s leading spies believe the political fallout from the publication on Wednesday of the Hutton Inquiry’s report will result in an attempt by the Prime Minister and his senior Cabinet colleagues to blame the intelligence services for the shoddy information which was used by the government to convince the British people and parliament that Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were a threat to the UK.
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The key points it wants on the record are:

Many had been openly sceptical about the presence of WMD in Iraq for years.

The intelligence community was under pressure to provide the government with what it wanted, namely that Iraq possessed WMD and was a danger.

Intelligence was “cherry-picked”, with damning intelligence against Iraq being selectively chosen, while intelligence assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were sidelined. lIntelligence work had become politicised under Labour , and spies were taking orders from politicians. They provided worst-case scenarios which were used by politicians to make factual claims.

http://www.sundayherald.com/39548

Bye, boys! May you meet the fate of all warmongers!

to do anything like that. Did you see them bow down like dogs so that Cheney and Rove could smash their snouts with the very rolled-up nuclear intelligence reports that they had fetched? Did you see them get all pissy after Valerie Plame was outed, then immediately run and hide behind the nearest secure government building?

It's kind of odd, but my disdain for the CIA is greater now, watching their complicity with and their later cowardice against Cheney's manipulation, than it was either when they were out of control in the 60's and 70's or when they were so stunningly wrong about Soviet military strength and politics in the 80's.

Every American, and foreign national for that matter, watched them help lie us into war, then get rolled afterward and kicked down hard. Putting BushCo ahead of America has left them without a scrap of dignity. I almost feel embarassed for them, but they really are a disgrace as an organization.

Now David Kay says that the CIA should apologize to the Pres. Man, they must be fuming. First they kiss Cheny and Dubya ass then they get blamed for shoddy intell. How can anyone trust the CIA ater all of this crap?

They failed america on 9/11 and this is no forgiveable... the leadership of all american intelligence agencies should have been fired and the entire apparatus eliminated.

Perhaps a new agency could be formed with the viable remnants....

As it stands, dissing the CIA is just a way to repress potential political dissent from people who really know who's doing the crimes on capital hill.

In the current realpolitik, i think the CIA should grow a spine.