WMD Commission Releases Scathing Report

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washingtonpost.com
WMD Commission Releases Scathing Report
Panel Finds U.S. Intelligence on Iraq's Weapons Was 'Dead Wrong'
By Katherin Shrader
Associated Press
Thursday, March 31, 2005; 8:50 AM


In a scathing report, a presidential commission said Thursday that America's spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most of their judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war and that the United States knows "disturbingly little" about the threats posed by many of the nation's most dangerous adversaries.

The commission called for dramatic change to prevent future failures. It outlined 74 recommendations and said President Bush could implement most of them without action by Congress. It urged Bush to give broader powers to John Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, to deal with challenges to his authority from the CIA, Defense Department or other elements of the nation's 15 spy agencies.

It also called for sweeping changes at the FBI to combine the bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence resources into a new office.

The report was the latest somber assessment of intelligence shortfalls that a series of investigative panels have made since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Numerous investigations have concluded that spy agencies had serious intelligence failures before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks against the United States.

The report implicitly absolves the Bush administration of manipulating the intelligence used to launch the 2003 Iraq war, putting the blame for bad intelligence directly on the intelligence community.<snip>


to download report: www.wmd.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/wmd/index.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15184-2005Mar31.html

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1. Right

Like we expected this hand picked commission to actually tell the truth. All the blame is on the intelligence community, and the administration gets a free pass.

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2. And anybody who believes this White House 'report' should go and

see if they can have their dosage upped because the meds obviously aren't working.

The White House and their minions the O.S.P. LIED.

By the way, where is the dumbest fucking guy one earth, little Dougie Feith? I forgot who it was who called him that, but it certainly is the truth.

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3. Crafty little piece of bullshit -

absolves Bushco from it's lies and gives them the go ahead to clean house of those in the intellingence community not on the PNAC bandwagon.

Nice.