New account suggests dissident faction inside CIA

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WASHINGTON - A new account of the CIA leak scandal rocking the White House suggests top presidential aides were seriously concerned about what could be seen as a dissident faction inside the US spy agency that appeared to work even behind the back of the CIA director to debunk the notion Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Charges that the regime of Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was angling to revive its nuclear program served as the prime rationale for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

None of these arms have been found in the country in the wake of the Iraq war.

The first-hand account, delivered Sunday by Judith Miller, a New York Times reporter at the center of the leak story, cast a new light on the byzantine world of Washington politics rife with political intrigue, backstabbing and career-ruining retribution for expressing an opposing view.

[TrueAmerican]

1. The intel community works like one of those spam emails

You know the ones that are hoaxes the the republicans forward to each other that they become "urban legends" and are easily discredited by Snopes. The intel industry needs a Snopes.com to fact check. Nobody fact checks anymore.