Can Bush succeed in using the new intelligence report to drive his political agenda to attack Iran?

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday he would resign if administration officials mischaracterized or "cherry-picked" intelligence to support their own political agenda.

Will President Bush succeed in using the intelligence report to drive his own political agenda to attack Iran?
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National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Tuesday he would resign if administration officials mischaracterized or "cherry-picked" intelligence to support their own political agenda.

"If it were cherry-picked in an inappropriate way, then for me, that's a professional obligation to object, and I would submit my resignation," McConnell told reporters.

Bush administration officials have been accused of selectively releasing intelligence that supported the case for an invasion of Iraq prior to the war. McConnell also said a new national intelligence estimate on Iran should be complete in about a month, but its key findings will not be released publicly. He says doing so could alert Iran to its intelligence vulnerabilities.

"When I go back and look at it, I think we the community, the nation and the nation's leadership probably would have been better served if we had been insistent, absolutely insistent upon a higher level of integrity with regard to what does the clinical evidence say, long before we get to what we think about it," he said.

"We are a much better community analytically. We learned those lessons of October 2002 very, very well. And the quality of the output is much better in my view," he said.

Americans may not be the brightest and most perceptive people on the planet, but if you screw with Americans once, and they know that they were screwed with, that's it. Bush is fucked, and I couldn't be happier, because that means this country still has a chance.

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