Reply #4: You have absolutely no clue, do you?.... [View All]

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Yes, the CIA has made mistakes in the past, but under the NeoCon Junta, the CIA's advice/input/recommendations was largely ignored.

The CIA wouldn't play ball with the NeoCons, so Rummy threatened at first to have them report to him so that he could oversee the intelligence results the NeoCons wanted. When that didn't work, the NeoCons created the OSP, a Pentagon-based "intelligence" group that had ties to Iraqis with a major vested interest in seeing us invade Iraq, and the willingness to rewrite intelligence estimates from all sources, to include information coming from the CIA.

No better example of this can be found than in the wording in the CIA's CLASSIFIED National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) containing qualified data indicating the lack of hard evidence on WMDs, and the resultant wording in the UNCLASSIFIED version of the NIE presented to Congress and other major decision-makers on Iraq. Who changed the wording? The CIA states that they don't have any idea how the qualified statements made in their version became definitive statements of fact in the summary version.

Do you understand that the CIA is being used as the fall guy for the NeoCons?

As to your comment about the CIA being "next to useless regarding...service to the nation", I have to wonder what source or sources you're using to make that kind of clueless blanket statement.