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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Manufacturing intelligence

hat tip to john at americablog...
The soap opera hearings over the president's nomination of John Bolton as U.N. ambassador have had an unintended effect, bolstering what half a dozen investigations of pre-9/11 intelligence failures couldn't prove: an atmosphere in the White House that pushed spies to bend their conclusions to political ends...

like it needed bolstering... the editorial goes on to point out that the strong support for bolton from the white house is prima facie evidence that the manufacture of intelliegence that supports foregone conclusions is behavior that is rewarded...

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