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 [Ignorance Is Futile!] NEW: PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings”: Washington, DC, August 22, 2008 - The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados.

 [AfterDowningStreet.org - Convict Bush and Cheney!] Documents Reveal PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intel Findings: He concluded, in essence, that the Bush administration cherry picked intelligence to justify an invasion, that Tony Blair's British government was complicit in producing shaky intelligence on Saddam's WMDs, that administration figures -- especially Cheney -- pressured the CIA to give them what they wanted, and that intelligence undercutting the case for war was ignored in favor of less reliable sources who backed administration beliefs.

[I'm A Pimpin Turtle...] Documents reveal PR push for Iraq war preceded intel findings: "The net impression is that theCIA white paper was rewritten to conform to administration preferences.If so, U.S. intelligence a priori made itself a tool of a politicaleffort, vitiating the intelligence function and confirming the presenceof a politicized process," he writes. "The specific analytic failureson Iraq intelligence become much less significant in such a climate,especially in that they all yielded intelligence predictions of exactlythe kind the Bush administration wanted to hear."

 [CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS] Newly declassified docs prove PR push for Iraq War preceded ...: - The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados.

[Iran Affairs] Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings: The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados.

 [bespacific] National Security Archive: PR Push for Iraq War Preceded ...: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 254: "The US intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to...

[Iraq - All] PR PUSH FOR IRAQ WAR PRECEDED INTELLIGENCE FINDINGS "WHITE PAPER ...: On the one hand, the CIA intervened to keep this material out of the major speech President Bush gave in Cincinnati in October 2002, and also objected when British intelligence included it in their own white paper about the Iraqi threat. On the other hand, senior CIA officials mentioned the uranium claim in congressional testimony at the same time, permitted it to be included in a December 2002 fact sheet on Iraq, and mounted only tepid opposition to inclusion of the charge in President Bushs 2003 State of the Union Address, where it would become notorious as the 16 Words.

 [SWJ Blog] 23 August SWJ Roundup: the US military's Central Command, in overall charge of the conflicts in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He sat down for an hour and a half this week with Newsweek's Rod Nordland, at the general's office in the American Embassy, in Saddam's old Republican Palace...

 [newquaker.com weblog] Now Can We Impeach?: The Archive published a July 2002 draft of a CIA "White Paper" on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. The draft was prepared months before a National Intelligence Estimate on Saddam's regime, which Congress did not demand until September, although the final "White Paper" released in October purportedly summarized that very NIE.

[Stop US Wars] Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings: The US intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior …

 [SWJ Blog] SWJ Interview with Bing West (Part 1): "It's certainly our goal," he said, "that in 2006 the Iraqis are out in front in counterinsurgency operations." Rumsfeld was in agreement, announcing a drawdown of US forces, with "a smaller footprint to avoid antagonism and dependence", while responsibility for security shifted to the Iraqis. The Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the head of the Central Command and the top generals in Iraq were all telling President Bush the same thing.

[Stop US Wars] Newly-declassified docs prove PR push for Iraq War preceded ”¦: “White Paper” Drafted before NIE even Requested. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No.

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