Another contemporaneous article was "The Pentagon Muzzles the CIA -- Devising bad intelligence to promote bad policy" at
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=6636
of December 16, 2002 which stated, just as McClellan did that "Even as it prepares for war against Iraq, the Pentagon is already engaged on a second front: its war against the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon is bringing relentless pressure to bear on the agency to produce intelligence reports more supportive of war with Iraq, according to former CIA officials.
Key officials of the Department of Defense are also producing their own unverified intelligence reports to justify war. Much of the questionable information comes from Iraqi exiles long regarded with suspicion by CIA professionals. A parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation, in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, collects the information from the exiles and scours other raw intelligence for useful tidbits to make the case for preemptive war. These morsels sometimes go directly to the president...
But the sharpest battle is over the CIA. "There is tremendous pressure on [the CIA] to come up with information to support policies that have already been adopted," says Vincent Cannistraro, a former senior CIA official and counterterrorism expert. What's unfolding is a campaign by well-placed hawks to undermine the CIA's ability to provide objective, unbiased intelligence to the White House.
"The [INC's] intelligence isn't reliable at all," says Cannistraro. "Much of it is propaganda. Much of it is telling the Defense Department what they want to hear. And much of it is used to support Chalabi's own presidential ambitions. They make no distinction between intelligence and propaganda, using alleged informants and defectors who say what Chalabi wants them to say, [creating] cooked information that goes right into presidential and vice-presidential speeches."
Adds Cannistraro,"They're willing to twist information in order to serve that interest. They've opened up a channel at the Pentagon to collect intelligence from Iraqi exiles, using people off the books, contractors. It's getting pretty close to an Iran-Contra type of situation."
"What Happened" was that big bro 43 attacked Democrats. Remember how they had a picture of Max Cleland cropped into one of bin laden and these serial propagandists accused the decorated war hero of being an ally of bin laden?
"What Happened" is John Conyers, the chairman of the Judiciary committee, has started discussing issuing subpoenas for McClellan. Congressman Robert Wexler, after reading parts of McClellan's book is attempting to convince John Conyers to compel Scotty to testify. They have already subpoenaed Karl Rove to testify about Libby and the prosecution of former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, a Democrat.
"What Happened" is W is a war criminal. Jack Cafferty, CNN Anchor on the May 28, 2008 Situation Room said "Bush White House sold the Iraq war to the American people with, quote, "a political propaganda campaign." That was led by the president and focused on, quote, "manipulating sources of public opinion" and, quote, "down playing the major reason for going to war."
Those are some of the withering charges in an explosive new book by former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. McClellan saw it all from the inside as a member of the president's inner circle; worked for him for 10 years. McClellan stops just short of saying that the president lied about Iraq, but he says, "the administration played fast and loose with the truth in a way that almost guaranteed that the use of force would be the result."
McClellan concludes, quote, "what I do know is that war should only be waged when necessary and the Iraq war was not necessary, unquote.
The White House is fuming. They're dismissing McClellan's claims as the work of a disgruntled former employee."
In the Cafferty file segment of the show Cafferty used a question that asked if Scott McClellan would testify in hearings regarding W being a war criminal. Why not? He lied us into a war? W is also being accused of making up false realities for himself for using cocaine, and hypocrisy about the Iraq war which he led us into because only war-time presidents are considered as the greatest.
'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Wednesday, May 28 at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24874490/
talks about how the White House doesn't refute McClellan's views they just attack him and they all use the same words. Making so many professional propagandists recite identical talking points diminishes them all--which is hard to do considering they are all empty suits, and also reduces the hypocrisy's impact. We all see for just another Rovian exercise in creating spin.
The article states "It is sad," writes Dana Perino. "This is not the Scott we knew."
KARL ROVE, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: This doesn't sound like Scott. It really doesn't. Not the Scott McClellan I've known for a long time.
DAN BARTLETT, FORMER BUSH COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: It's almost like witnessing an out-of-body experience.
