The DOD neo-cons -- Rumsfeld's boys -- being served up on a platter? Tough time to have no friends in Washington.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...gon/index.html
Headline and excerpts:
"Pentagon's prewar intelligence role questioned
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Sunday that they want to know whether the Pentagon knowingly withheld information from the CIA and ran a secret intelligence-gathering operation in building a case for invading Iraq.
"Their comments came two days after the committee released an independent, bipartisan report condemning flawed prewar intelligence that said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. (Full story)
Speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press,' the committee's chairman and vice chairman, Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas and Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, respectively, expressed concern over actions by the Defense Intelligence Agency and Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy.
Roberts cited false information on Iraq that the Bush administration had taken from a source code-named Curveball.
'Curveball really provided 98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon,' Roberts said.
"'Yet the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, knew of his background. He has a very troubled background.'
"Based on this source's claims, the administration argued that Iraq had biological weapons capability, Roberts said.
"'That's the kind of flaw in intelligence and I think -- I won't say willful -- but the DIA should have shared that information with the CIA. And the CIA should have gone from there.""
[The rest of the piece goes on to hammer Feith and his Office of Special Plans.]
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