National Intel Director: Bush Admin. Manipulated Iraq Intel ‘Because They Didn’t Like The Answers’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/22/mcconnell-pentagon

National Intel Director: Bush Admin. Manipulated Iraq Intel ‘Because They Didn’t Like The Answers’

In Stephen Hayes’s upcoming biography on Dick Cheney, he writes that the current Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell appears to side with “those who believe that the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq for political purposes before the 2003 invasion.”

McConnell reportedly said he had “serious reservations” when asked by President Bush to become the DNI because of the Pentagon’s manipulation of intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq war. Today, Meet the Press host Tim Russert previewed the relevant portion of the book:

McConnell was honored to be asked (to be DNI), but he had serious reservations. He had been unimpressed with many aspects of the Bush administration and its conduct of the war on terror, particularly what he felt was a politicized use of intelligence in the lead-up to the Iraq war. …

“My sense of it is their political faith and convictions influenced how they took information and interpreted (it), how they picked up and interpreted outside events. … I’ve read much more about the current set of players and they did set up a whole new interpretation because they didn’t like the answers. They’ve gotten results that in my view now have been disastrous,” (McConnell said).

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1. Uh, okay.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/22/mcconnell-pentagon

Let’s simply talk some more about it.

Comment by G Whiz — July 22, 2007 @ 3:11 pm

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2. k&r...no kidding sherlock..and we all did't know this now did we??

now this guy says this..what an insult to all our soldiers and their families!!..where was this guys guts when he could have said this on national tv ..or before he took the job..i am sick of these cowards being touted as tough on the enemy..they are all cowards!!

thx hissyspit!!

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