Somewhere in the memory hole CIA stuff pre-war....

[vi5]

I know I read articles prior to the war about how the CIA said there was no direct threat and that the administration was pushing them to conclusions. I wish I had saved them amidst all my other saved links and articles (it gets tough to keep up with this stuff...there aren't enough gigabytes on all the computers in the world to store all the crap on this administration). I know I remember prior to the war that they were strongarming the CIA and the CIA was pissed.

Think anyone will come up with any of these?

[Mad As Hell]

1. It seems to me that

they release all the bad news in clumps, smeared over with a terra alert, so that it all is too much work to keep up with.

[Webster Green]

2. Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.....

These guys have been telling about the pressure from The Big Dick fror the CIA to come up with the intelligence needed to justify the PNAC agenda. I have heard them interviewed on 'Democracy Now', and they were great. I think we will be hearing from them again.

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It was a deep insult to the integrity of the intelligence process that, after the Vice President declared on August 26, 2002 that "we know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons," the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) produced during the critical month of September featured a fraudulent conclusion that "most analysts" agreed with Cheney's assertion. This may help explain the anomaly of Cheney's unprecedented "multiple visits" to CIA headquarters at the time, as well as the many reports that CIA and other intelligence analysts were feeling extraordinarily great pressure, accompanied by all manner of intimidation tactics, to concur in that conclusion. As a coda to his nuclear argument, Cheney told NBC's Meet the Press three days before US/UK forces invaded Iraq: "we believe he (Saddam Hussein) has reconstituted nuclear weapons."
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More: http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2003/veteran_intelligence_professionals_newsrelease.html