Friday, October 24, 2003Whose Fault is it Anyway?The Washington Post reports that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is set to release a damning report on the poor intelligence presented to the government in the lead-up to the attack on Iraq. The report focuses mainly on the CIA and other intelligence agencies and shifts the focus away from the White House. But, as Sy Hersh points out in his excellent article in the New Yorker, the traditional routes of intelligence were pushed aside by the Bush administration in favour of a "stovepipe" arrangement. This sent intelligence straight to the top levels of the Bush administration before it was examined by seasoned intelligence officials. Which means that erroneous information was delivered to people that had already made up their minds to go to war. It made it too easy to pick and choose the information that fit their plan, with no regard for its accuracy. And as we now know, ALL of the evidence that the Bush administration provided the American people was patently false. Hersh's article helps explain what happened. posted by chris at 7:37 PM ------------------ |
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