Hadley is asked @ press briefing how can the public be assured the policy isn't driving Intel

[sabra]

*Note: he doesn't even dismiss that this may have happened in the past :crazy:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003541385

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Q Mr. Hadley, given the track record on weapons of mass destruction, and recent events that have alleged that intelligence has been cherry-picked and pulled selectively, how can the public be assured that intelligence is driving the policy and not the other way around, that it's being tailored to what the President and the Vice President want the policy to be?

MR. HADLEY: By putting out things like this, the coordinated judgment of the intelligence community, so you can see the intelligence on which the policy was based.

Q How can we be assured that this wasn't written for that purpose?

MR. HADLEY: Well, you can talk to the intelligence community. This came from the NIC -- the National Intelligence Council. And it came out of that process. It was not a result of a policy process. It was a result of the intelligence process. And there was no effort to put a policy spin on that by the White House. This is a thing we got roughly a day or two before you.

[rodeodance]

1. no trust

[bigtree]

2. of course, they cherry pick from these assessments too

like he did

[spanone]

3. Blah, Blah, Blah, trust us. No thanks, mr. hadley.

[sabra]

4. "And there was no effort to put a policy spin on that by the White House."

Coming from one of the biggest spin doctors working @ BushCo...