How Cheney Cooked the Intelligence on Iran

How Cheney Cooked the Intelligence on Iran

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As I reported for Inter Press Service this week, Dick Cheney has been trying to pressure intelligence analysts who have not drunk the neocon kool-aid on Iran to go along with his line on the issues at stake in a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that the White House has been holding up for more than a year. Think Progress immediately noted the parallel between the Cheney's effort to get an Iran NIE that is more............

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Hmmmmm. I almost hesitated to post this, but, I read it again and decided to go ahead. I think the author is on to something. A leopard never changes it's spots, so they say, and if ya find a method that works, ya stick to it...just as this generation's "Tricky Dick" does.
Well, read the article. Then we can talk.

Cuhail

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It's a hell of a system where the intelligence community has to bow to the politicians. It reminds me of how German generals were told how to conduct the war. I know, Godwin's law. But that doesn't make my statement less true.

When the leadership tells the intelligence groups what to say they expect, then you have a system where there are fewer checks for major error. What if the intel said China would come to Iran's aid? If you disregard that to follow a bullheaded course, we could have WWIII.

I'd like to point out this little snippet which goes on to explain what he's talking about. Ya know, all the "Iran has nukes, or will very soon" talk we've heard...

Now flash forward to autumn 2006. Cheney had a draft NIE on Iraq that he didn't like. The intelligence community had already issued an NIE on Iran in spring 2005 that had concluded Iran's nuclear program would not progress to the point of having the capability to produce a nuclear weapon until sometime between 2010 and 2015. The new draft Iran estimate was still reportedly offering a similar analysis. Cheney wanted it to endorse the neocons' alarmist view that Iran could acquire the knowledge with which to make nuclear weapons much sooner than that.

Of course, but would it fly twice? He needs a backup...
Now, by what I've seen in the major news outlets (cough, cough), Iran was giving IED materials to Iraqi insurgents. Isn't that what you heard?

So part of Cheney's strategy was to keep sending the draft back for further work while he was creating a new political atmosphere on Iran's role in Iraq. He began in early 2007 to use the U.S. military command in Iraq to wage an intensive propaganda campaign on how the Iranians were supplying EFPs to anti-U.S. Shiite guerrillas through the Quds force. Ignoring intelligence available to the military that EFPs were being manufactured in machine shops in Iraq, Gen. Petraeus and his subordinates formulated a new narrative that would dominate media coverage and political discourse on the issue of Iran and Iraq.

(Emphasis by me)

We're stewed!

What do you all think?
Cuhail

It actually looks like the Senate, from some reports over the last few days, will not allow an Iranian attack... for some (Pelosi, the traitor) to say impeachment is "off the table" is treasonous to the US. She and Oil Cheney need to go asap, at least the latter. Those "naps" he's taking in meetings? They're mini-comas from his condition, he's dying, which is another reason for him NOT to hold office.