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Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml
Pretty much agrees with the experience of Australian intelligence analysts as well. Read "Axis of Deceit" by Andrew Wilkie.
(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.