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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Of course it was flawed
	Date:	2/6/2012 8:28:17 AM

The intelligence was manipulated, not by Bush but by those in his Administration whose views were well documented. Intelligence is a funny thing -- you can cherry pick what you want it to show or you can use "fully evaluated" intelligence. I realize that most people here have never looks at intelligence reports -- it is not as clear cut as you might think. It's quite easy to provide the President and the Hill with intelligence that can support a particular view -- reading intelligence is very much an art versus a science.

One of the reasons that Doug Feith started his own intelligence cell under his direction and headed up by more my colleague, Mike Maloof, was because the intelligence community was not reading the intelligence to support the views of himself and other neocons. While Maloof was an intelligence officer, he was frequently at odds with the rest of the intelligence community, which made him a perfect person to head up Feith's cell.

Bush was predisposed to believe anything that showed that WMD in Iraq -- I don't know if he had a personal reason (they did plot to kill his father) or because the Neocons had brainwashed him. You remember that Colin Powell was skeptical of the intelligence, and told Bush "you break it, you bought it".

I'm not going to get into a further discussion about this. You, of course, of free to believe whatever you want. But I don't think you would find too many intelligence officers familiar with all of this that would agree with you. Pressure was brought to bear. To quote Feb and Forrest Gump - that's all I have to say about that.