Mon Jun 2,10:42 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - In an environment of score-settling, finger-pointing and strong language, those in the US intelligence community are not eager to pay the price for the alleged exaggeration of the Iraqi threat.
The "spooks," as they are called, believe they did their jobs right, said Vincent Cannistraro, former counterterrorism chief for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Seven weeks after the fall of Baghdad, the banned weapons of mass destruction on which the United States and Britain based the justification for the invasion have not been found, leading to charges that the two countries manipulated evidence of those weapons and of Iraqi links to the al-Qaeda group.
"All I can tell you is there is a general feeling among CIA analysts that intelligence was politicized and that the CIA and (Defense Intelligence Agency) was not given full consideration because the Pentagon, the policymakers, including the vice-president's office, did not want to hear that message. They wanted to hear a hardline message supporting a policy they already adopted," Cannistraro said.
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Maybe, just maybe some people over there will grow some stones and really lay it out for the world to see.
This is a good development imho.
BadGimp
posted by BadGimp @ 11:13 AM
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