No Chief Left Accountable

The Presidential Commission on WMD Intelligence finally produced its report today (five months after the election) which put the blame on intelligence agencies, not the hawks in the Bush administration who sold the misinformation to the public before the Iraq War.

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Not only was the government "dead wrong" about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, officials still know "disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors," a special commission warned Thursday . . . "The commission did not address how the administration used the information to take the country to war," said Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J. Commissioners said their charge was to learn exactly how and why things went wrong with Iraq. The report did say that no political pressure caused analysts in the weeks leading to the war to "skew or alter any of their analytical judgments." (full article)

No political pressure caused analysts to alter their judgment! There's the complicit media once again failing to question the government. So much for accountability. What about Dick Cheney's daily pestering of intelligence officials from his special office in the CIA during 2002? It's all in Woodward's book.  The report states that Intelligence officials relied on an Iraqi informant known as "Curveball", who supplied false information. I wonder why they didn't consult Deep Throat first. This report will get tossed down the memory hole and business will carry on as usual. Considering the 2003 USA Today poll which stated that 70% of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks, I can guarantee you that Osama is still laughing.

Comments

[Joe]

Yea...you remember old "curveball Chalabi" don't you? What a believable guy HE is! This Bush outfit will leave future inhabitants of this wonderful garden planet a planet of dust and bones if they are not stopped!