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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Where the buffalo roam.....
Pat Roberts never wants to hear a discouraging word:
It was a quite a show at the Senate Intelligence Committee's worldwide threat-assessment briefing last week as the chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., outdid himself in the role of damage control officer.
For the first time since annual threat-assessment briefings by the heads of key intelligence agencies began a decade ago, the director of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research was disinvited.
Roberts and his Republican colleagues decided to preclude the possibility that some recalcitrant senator might ask why INR was able to get it right on Iraq when everyone else was wrong. Recall that the CIA and other intelligence agencies signed on to the worst National Intelligence Estimate in 40 years -- the one issued in October 2002 with the loaded title ''Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction.'' (The only near rival in infamy is the NIE of September 1962, which said that the Soviet Union would not risk trying to put missiles in Cuba. The missiles were already en route.)
INR has been forced to sit with its face to the wall ever since it resisted White House pressure to cook intelligence to the recipe of high policy. CIA Director George Tenet and other malleable intelligence managers acquiesced in that pressure and became accomplices in the Bush administration's successful effort in the fall of 2002 to deceive Congress into forfeiting to the president its constitutional prerogative to declare war.
The author?
Ray McGovern. "McGovern served as a CIA analyst for almost 30 years. From 1981 to 1985 he conducted daily briefings for Ronald Reagan's vice president, George Bush, the father of the incumbent president." Here's an interview with him.
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