Ex-Spies: CIA Workers Outraged (CBS News)

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/25/iraq/main560449.shtml

Ex-Spies: CIA Workers Outraged

NEW YORK, July 19, 2003


Before the bombs fell on Baghdad, there were analysts inside the American intelligence community who were troubled by the U.S. case for war, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Acosta. Raymond McGovern, a former CIA analyst and supervisor, says, "Never before in my 40 years of experience in this town has intelligence been used in so cynical and so orchestrated a way." McGovern is one of several retired intelligence analysts who say they are speaking out for those who can't inside the CIA.

"The Agency analysts that we are in touch with are disheartened, dispirited, angry,” he says. “They are outraged."

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U.S. intelligence and senior administration officials admit there has been little new evidence about Iraq's weapons program in the five years since U.N. inspectors left Iraq, the New York Times reports.


White House officials said Friday that President Bush and his national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, did not entirely read the most authoritative prewar assessment of U.S. intelligence on Iraq, missing a State Department claim that an allegation Bush would later use in his State of the Union address was "highly dubious," the Washington Post reports.

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1. I swear it is like a madhouse in DC. What is the group doing?

Can anyone understand the mess they are making of everything?

[indepat]

2. Surprise. Surprise. When will the media/people wake up to the fact

that everything this Administration does is to either further a hard, far-right ideology/PNAC vision; for political gain; or to reward patrons, for absolutely nothing else matters? Absolutely nothing else.

[teryang]

3. And they didn't even get kissed!

" I shall supply a propagandist reason for starting the war. The victor will not be asked, later on, whether he told the truth or not..." Hitler August 22, 1939

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, " George W. Bush
-- Business Week, July 30, 2001