http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802387_pf.htmlI'm sorry for Anna Nicole Smith, but the REAL news of the day is right here... just the start of the drip drip drip behind the scenes fabrication of 'the case for war' beginning to see the light of day.
Now, someone tell me why this shit isn't criminal? The MSM gushed for 2 years over a bl*wjob, they'd better start tearing this one up. Hopefully, with continuing revelations/ documentary evidence presented in Dem-led Congessional hearings, someone in the MSM can assemble a narrative of how the WH conned us into this catastraphe, one that the general public can understand.
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon's inspector general.
Feith's office "was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda," according to portions of the report, released yesterday by Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.). The inspector general described Feith's activities as "an alternative intelligence assessment process."
An unclassified summary of the full document is scheduled for release today in a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which Levin chairs. In that summary, a copy of which was obtained from another source by The Washington Post, the inspector general concluded that Feith's assessment in 2002 that Iraq and al-Qaeda had a "mature symbiotic relationship" was not fully supported by available intelligence but was nonetheless used by policymakers.
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The bottom line is that intelligence relating to the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship was manipulated by high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense to support the administration's decision to invade Iraq," Levin said yesterday. "The inspector general's report is a devastating condemnation of inappropriate activities in the DOD policy office that helped take this nation to war."
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