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[The Carpetbagger Report] 'This isn't about intel anymore. This is about... : top intelligence officials told the White House before the war that Iraq had no WMD, but Bush officials ignored the warnings, cherry picked the information it wanted to believe, and blew off anyone who disagreed. It's a story we've heard so many times, it does, after a while, start to sound like a broken record.

 [Penguins on the Equator] "Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is... : They didn't want any additional data from Sabri because, says Drumheller: "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy." Condi Rice has said Sabri was just one source, and so couldn't be taken all that seriously, but Drumheller points out that the administration was perfectly willing to rely on single sources when they provided information that supported their case for war.

 [Stress] Attention: F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr.: Since you’re the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I figure you must be the appropriate person to address this to. I have another piece of evidence to go into your articles of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Cheney: “Drumheller, who retired last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high

  Amygdala: the rationale for why the CIA would be so anti-Administration, other than on, you know, the facts, has always been difficult to make the least sense of, but it runs back through the absurd allegations that they didn't do enough to support the Afghan muj, and back to the claim that they were eviscerated by the Church and Pike Committees (that one at least has a grain of truth, but is grossly exaggerated, as a rule, but that makes it unlike all the rest of this history), and back to the charge that they were insufficient in prosecuting the Vietnam War and negative about it, and back to somehow citing Alger Hiss, and the Communists who have infiltrated the State Department, and the Nixon/McCarthy charges against the wimpy "Eastern Establishment," and back to the charges that OSS was insufficient in supporting Chiang Kai-shek, the brave and noble Chinese leader, and thus responsible for Losing China To The Communists.

[In Search Of Utopia] The coming "$h*t storm": The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence,which the administration chose to ignore.

[A Newer World] More Bad News for Bush: The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence ”” which the administration chose to ignore…

 [ mcarthurweb] Gonna be interesting if the Democrats ta: The former highest ranking CIA officer in Europe, Tyler Drumheller, also says that while the intelligence community did give the White House some bad intelligence, it also gave the White House good intelligence ”” which the administration chose to ignore...

 [Msnbc.msn.com] Iraqi diplomat gave US prewar WMD details - Lisa Myers & the NBC ...: Skip navigationpd_top('Story','html40','11927856','Iraqi diplomat gave U.S. prewar WMD details','NBC\'s Lisa Myers investigates an Iraqi  spy story that has never been disclosed before, and raises new questions about prewar intelligence.','Nightly News','Investigative Unit','','1','2','19:36, 20/03/06','Aram Roston, Lisa Myers& the NBC Investigative Unit','component','','','3502862','74187','', '1');pd_om('msnbcom','100');

 [Lawhawk.blogspot.com] A Blog For All: Still Think Diplomacy Would Have Avoided Conflict?: Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s last foreign minister, Naji Sabri, was a paid spy for French intelligence, which later turned him over to the CIA to supply information about Iraq and its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs more than six months before the war began in March 2003, according to former senior intelligence officials.This differs from the version of events that I noted a few days ago, which was based on NBC news reports:

 [Freerepublic.com] Russian Spy Agency Denies Pentagon Report ~: 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, the Russian special services, the intelligence service, received information that officials from Saddam's regime were preparing terrorist attacks in the United States and outside it against the U.S. military and other interests," Putin said, according to RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency.

 [News.yahoo.com] Saddam's FM denies being CIA spy - Yahoo! News: Naji Sabri Hadithi, Iraq's foreign minister under Saddam Hussein, denied a report he provided .Saddam's FM denies being CIA spy.

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