THREE Independent Reports Have Found No Distortion Of Pre-War Intelligence

Ever wonder why Democraps want another investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq? Perhaps because three past independent investigations all concluded the same thing, that there was no manipulation of intelligence, and the Democraps are trying to create one that will say the opposite? Pat Roberts, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) says another forthcoming report will conclude the same thing.



The Robb-Silberman Commission On The Intelligence Capabilities Of The United States Regarding Weapons Of Mass Destruction, pages 50-51: "no evidence of political pressure,":Link to report


The Commission found no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments of Iraq's weapons programs. As we discuss in detail in the body of our report, analysts universally asserted that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments. We conclude that it was the paucity of intelligence and poor analytical tradecraft, rather than political pressure, that produced the inaccurate pre-war intelligence assessments.



The Bipartisan Senate Select Committee Report On The U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments On Iraq, pages 284-285, "did not find any evidence,":Link to report


Conclusion 83. The Committee did not find any evidence that Administration officials attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities. … Conclusion 84. The Committee found no evidence that the Vice President's visits to the Central Intelligence Agency were attempts to pressure analysts, were perceived as intended to pressure analysts by those who participated in the briefings on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, or did pressure analysts to change their assessments.



The British Butler Report, Review Of Intelligence On Weapons Of Mass Destruction, page 110, "found no evidence of deliberate distortion,":Link to report

In general, we found that the original intelligence material was correctly reported in [Joint Intelligence Committee] assessments. An exception was the '45 minute' report. But this sort of example was rare in the several hundred JIC assessments we read on Iraq. In general, we also found that the reliability of the original intelligence reports was fairly represented by the use of accompanying quali?cations. We should record in particular that we have found no evidence of deliberate distortion or of culpable negligence. We examined JIC assessments to see whether there was evidence that the judgements inside them were systematically distorted by non-intelligence factors, in particular the in?uence of the policy positions of departments. We found no evidence of JIC assessments and the judgements inside them being pulled in any particular direction to meet the policy concerns of senior officials on the JIC.

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IT'S A LIE! IT'S ALL A LIE!

BUSH LIED, KIDS DIED!

HALLIBURTON!

SECRET PRISONS!

FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS!

OIL BUDDIES!

COVER UP!

IT'S A LIE! IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT! HE'S AN IDIOT!

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OUCH!

I hurt my brain trying to "think" the way they do.

Excuse me while I go read a Reagan clip to recover....

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!

The "Hot" DUng:  "These so-called investigations were all done by neo-cons with a vested interest in whitewashing the the outcome."  ..."We know bush lied and children died."
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