Analysts Behind Deeply Flawed Iraq Intelligence Were Rewarded

Three years running, these liars have been awarded.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/27/AR2005052701618_pf.html

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 28, 2005; A01



Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on Iraq -- the claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Baghdad government were most likely meant for a nuclear weapons program rather than for rockets -- have received job performance awards in each of the past three years, officials said.

The civilian analysts, former military men considered experts on foreign and U.S. weaponry, work at the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC), one of three U.S. agencies singled out for particular criticism by President Bush's commission that investigated U.S. intelligence.

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The problem, according to the commission, which cited the two analysts' work, is that they did not seek or obtain information available from the Energy Department and elsewhere showing that the tubes were indeed the type used for years as rocket-motor cases by Iraq's military. The panel said the finding represented a "serious lapse in analytic tradecraft" because the center's personnel "could and should have conducted a more exhaustive examination of the question."

Pentagon spokesmen said the awards for the analysts were to recognize their overall contributions on the job over the course of each year. But some current and former officials, including those who called attention to the awards, said the episode shows how the administration has failed to hold people accountable for mistakes on prewar intelligence....

Any agent who showed loyalty to the US and its citizens are still being purged and those who show loyalty only to BushInc are rewarded.

That is what this country has come down to. Fockin' stupid freepers who will never wake up and smell the King George.

but the ability to be shocked is being worn down by the sheer volume of material to be shocked by.

I hate Backwards Day.