The spies who pushed for war

[midwayer]

Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html

[enough]

1. OSP - lays it all out nice and clear

Thursday July 17, 2003
The Guardian

As the CIA director, George Tenet, arrived at the Senate yesterday to give secret testimony on the Niger uranium affair, it was becoming increasingly clear in Washington that the scandal was only a small, well-documented symptom of a complete breakdown in US intelligence that helped steer America into war.

It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to prevent the September 11 attacks was largely due to internal institutional weaknesses.

This time the implications are far more damaging for the White House, which stands accused of politicising and contaminating its own source of intelligence.

According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence sources, senior administration figures created a shadow agency of Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence Agency.

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[annxburns]

2. HELLO AMERICAN MEDIA!

WAKE UP YOU WHORES.

REPORT ON THE OSP DAMMIT!

[bpilgrim]

3. the world's sole superpower risks stumbling onwards half-blind, unable to

the world's sole superpower risks stumbling onwards half-blind, unable to distinguish real threats from phantoms"

when will the U.S. FUCKING 'media' pick this - OSP - story up :argh:

peace

[Miss Authoritiva]

4. Is the 2003 date on this article correct?

Wow, the American press is way, way behind on this.

I firmly believe that this whole mess goes beyond the PNACers; there just have been too many powerful people and institutions in active or passive collusion on this deal. I wonder if they got what they really wanted?

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Yep, that's the correct date

eg reprint here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030717-shadow-spies01.htm

It's amazing that the conclusions from the Democratic supplement to the Senate Intelligence Report were available a year ago, but so little was made of them.

I'm glad this was posted; I'd never seen the accusations of Likud bypassing Mossad in the same way the Republicans bypassed the CIA.