MORE ON THE INTELLIGENCE WAR
BETWEEN BUSH AND THE CIA

Okay, it's another one from Salon (and their annoying "day pass" procedure to get to their premium stuff), but it's worth reading. From former senior advisor to President Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal:

In advance of the war, Bush (to be precise, Cheney, the de facto prime minister to the distant monarch) viewed the CIA, the State Department and other intelligence agencies not simply as uncooperative, but even disloyal, as their analysts continued to sift through information to determine what exactly might be true. For the intelligence analysts, this process is at the essence of their professionalism and mission. Yet the strict insistence on the empirical was a threat to the ideological, facts an imminent danger to the doctrine. So those facts had to be suppressed, and those creating contrary evidence had to be marginalized, intimidated or have their reputations tarnished.

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Thanks to Eschaton for the link.

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