Lack of intelligence from Inhofe. Claims that Office of Special Plans improved intelligence process.

[ck4829]

Pentagon officials undercut the intelligence community in the run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq by insisting in briefings to the White House that there was a clear relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Defense Department's inspector general said Friday.

Acting Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the office headed by former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith took "inappropriate" actions in advancing conclusions on al-Qaida connections not backed up by the nation's intelligence agencies.

"That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war," Levin said in an interview Thursday. He said the Pentagon's work, "which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing."

Republicans on the panel disagreed. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., said the "probing questions" raised by Feith's policy group improved the intelligence process.

http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,124721,00.html

Excuse me, but the Intelligence was WRONG. There were no WMDs, there were no links to Al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein was not involved in 9/11. We went to war based on this 'intelligence'. It was WRONG!

[Captain Hilts]

1. OSP was just a conduit for Ahmed Chalabi. nt

[sabra]

2. seems like he and the DoD spokeman are reading the same talking points

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x168304

[Kagemusha]

3. Improving the intelligence process without notifying Congress isn't legal.

Inhofe may wish to ask Feith for better rhetoric for covering Feith's butt.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Well inhofe and his fellow "conservative" statesmen

should march gimble to the edge of the earth and toss him off.

[lancdem]

5. Inhofe's an idiot

Always was, always will be.