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cthulu23 · 07-30-2004, 11:57 PM

There was plenty of intelligence out there that stated the opposite of what Bush believed...unfortunately, it wasn't paid attention to. The White House was so dissatisfied with CIA info that they ran their own intelligence apparatus. They may not have "lied" about the state of affairs, but they did carefully select the info that most closely followed their preconceived notions. This was the intelligence that they then used to justify the war.
How was the congress supposed to "differenciate" (no c, btw) between the good intelligence and the bad? They trusted the executive.

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cthulu23 Banned	There was plenty of intelligence out there that stated the opposite of what Bush believed...unfortunately, it wasn't paid attention to. The White House was so dissatisfied with CIA info that they ran their own intelligence apparatus. They may not have "lied" about the state of affairs, but they did carefully select the info that most closely followed their preconceived notions. This was the intelligence that they then used to justify the war. How was the congress supposed to "differenciate" (no c, btw) between the good intelligence and the bad? They trusted the executive. Last edited by cthulu23; 07-31-2004 at 12:00 AM..