Friday, February 06, 2004
White House commission to assess Iraqi threat
Personally, I think this should have been done before we invaded:
- With respect to that portion of its examination under paragraph 2(a) of this order that relates to Iraq, the Commission shall specifically examine the Intelligence Community's intelligence prior to the initiation of Operation Iraqi Freedom ...
Too bad the commission is not mandated to determine if the White House knew what to do with the intelligence. In one of the best articles written about the administration's use of intelligence, the Seymour M. Hersh suggests in the New Yorker:
- Part of the answer lies in decisions made early in the Bush Administration, before the events of September 11, 2001. In interviews with present and former intelligence officials, I was told that some senior Administration people, soon after coming to power, had bypassed the government’s customary procedures for vetting intelligence.
// posted by Erik @ 2/06/2004 07:49:00 PM
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