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A Failure of Policy, Not Intelligence

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml

(CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.


"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure," Drumheller tells Bradley.

Drumheller was the CIA's top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:

Pretty much agrees with the experience of Australian intelligence analysts as well. Read "Axis of Deceit" by Andrew Wilkie.
 
Seymour Hersh covers the same ground in "Chain of Command". What's really scary to me is that the same little group of neo-cons, Fite, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, et al, were running around doing similar policy things when Gerald Ford was president.
 
Seymour Hersh covers the same ground in "Chain of Command". What's really scary to me is that the same little group of neo-cons, Fite, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, et al, were running around doing similar policy things when Gerald Ford was president.

This is the SAME Seymous Hersh who wrote, for instance, "The Samson Option" (full of allegations about Pollard and israeli nukes)--a book whose main source, as it turned out, was israeli con man Ari Ben Menashe, a man of absolutely no crediibility?

Or, in his investigation of the Kennedy white house, relied extensively on forged document by a scam artist, and would have included the "sensational" discoveries included in the forged material in the book, if it wasn't for an ABC investigation that pointed out, inter alia that addresses in the "incriminating" material had zip codes--before zip codes existed?

Or... but you get the point.

Hersh has a long, long record of writing books alleging "shocking discoveries" about how people he considers evil and disgusting are--surprise, surprise--REALLY ARE evil and disgusting, and of using just about anything as a "source" and "evidence" as long as it agrees with his preconceived views.

If you came to Hersh and told him Bush was a vampire and the real reason for the war in Iraq was lack of enough blood, he'd probably believe it.
 
And is Tyler Drumheller part of the same anti-conservative, anti-Israeli conspiracy too?
 
I forget the author who was speaking about the neo-cons and Ford, but it was not Hersh. Some fellow on NPR's Fresh Air a month or so ago.

Hersh also has a disconcerting habit of being right a fair amount of the time. Recall the story about ferretting out nuclear sites in Iran for possible attack?

The administration first strongly denied it, then claimed the story was full of "errors", then said, "well yeah, we did that..."
 
"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure," Drumheller tells Bradley.
There have to be a lot of pissed-off Company folk. I can't imagine a Soviet government dumping on the KGB like this, back in the day. Of course, the KGB encompassed the roles of CIA and FBI. Separation of such powers seems to be a good idea. The FBI gets blamed for 9/11, to the delight of the CIA, and the CIA for Iraq, to the delight of the FBI. As to dumping on both at once, I would counsel caution.
 

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