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I remember reading a criticism of the CIA not long after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The alarming question was how could they have gotten it so wrong on the state of the Soviet economy?
As Blumenthal points out, Cheney had fully circumvented CIA intelligence and produced and promoted his view through the same "group think" methodology that he used in selling the Iraq war. Please think about this. In Cheney's world, his foreign policy goals produce the intelligence necessary to support them. Intelligence needs to inform policy, not the other way around.
My personal belief is that Cheney is a dangerous ideologue.
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