Save money on the WMD Commission , Dubya. Just use Hirsch's article.

[non sociopath skin]

Just re-read Seymour Hirsch's article from the New Yorker last October.

There's no need for a commission. This says it all.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/?040209fr_archive02

The Skin

[salin]

1. While they are busy blaming the CIA - the overlook the OSP

Hirsh's article is a must read.

[Merlin]

2. Incredibly damning stuff! Read it before but it's even better now.

...
The Administration eventually got its way, a former C.I.A. official said. “The analysts at the C.I.A. were beaten down defending their assessments. And they blame George Tenet”—the C.I.A. director—“for not protecting them. I’ve never seen a government like this.”
...

By early March, 2002, a former White House official told me, it was understood by many in the White House that the President had decided, in his own mind, to go to war. The undeclared decision had a devastating impact on the continuing struggle against terrorism. The Bush Administration took many intelligence operations that had been aimed at Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups around the world and redirected them to the Persian Gulf. Linguists and special operatives were abruptly reassigned, and several ongoing anti-terrorism intelligence programs were curtailed.

Chalabi’s defector reports were now flowing from the Pentagon directly to the Vice-President’s office, and then on to the President, with little prior evaluation by intelligence professionals...

[indepat]

5. A government like this has never been seen because there has never been

a government like this since since the founding of our Republic: there isn't even one that has been close.

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Heck, just register at DU and dig through the archives

We've been investigating and documenting Bu$h's blunders since he was selected.

[reprehensor]

4. Yes, but...

Who asked these intel shops, (professional and OSP), to go data-mining in the first place?

The Bush administration.

"Well, see, Tenet, you really f*cked up with that whole 911 deal, so to save your ass...make Iraq look nasty, real bad, see? Cuz a war is about the only way I know how to inject some life back into the economy. The fact that my dad is pretty much the King of the Military Industrial Congressional Complex notwithstanding..."

"Next week we're gonna put a new office in the Pentagon to take care of all that kinda stuff. So you just give 'em what they need, and everything will be OK...capeesh?"