I can't believe everyone is buying the "it was bad intelligence" bullshit coming out of the administration. The evidence looks bad now only because they ignored or redacted everything that didn't suit their needs at the time!

But now it's the CIA's fault.

The CIA had so many hedges in their reports that they needed a gardener. The CIA put those caveats in footnotes, not the straight text, because the administration was breating down their necks. And the Administration ignored those footnotes and reported to the rest of us the raw, un-nuanced picture. And when that wasn't good enough, the Administration started their own little intelligence op in the Pentagon. Why isn't the "Operation for Special Planning" getting any of the blame? As summarized by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "The dramatic shift between prior intelligence assessments and the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), together with the creation of an independent intelligence entity at the Pentagon and other steps, suggest that the intelligence community began to be unduly influenced by policymakers’ views sometime in 2002."

Sickening. You would think your less-than-average chimp could figure this out... could follow the bouncing ball.... yet somehow the average american keeps putting 2 and 2 together and coming up with 9 and 11.