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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
The abject failure of intelligence and/or diplomacy and/or policy-making is what has hurt the administration and our efforts abroad.
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Our intelligence didn't fail. The administration decided it wanted to invade Iraq, and it wanted the CIA to give it good reasons. The CIA did the best they could without -- as we now know -- much to work with. If Bush or Cheney had wanted to hear that Iraq had no WMD or meaningful ties to Al Qaeda, doubtless someone would have been happy to tell them.
Now the administration wants the CIA to take the fall, and it looks like it's going to do that job well, too.
Proof that the White House is good with all of this: Heads are not rolling at the CIA. Tenet stepped down before the Senate report came out, after an incredibly long tenure, considering, but the administration is resisting the 9/11 commission's calls for reform.
