A Defense Department Inspector General's has concluded that a Pentagon policy office, with the approval of Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, produced "alternative intelligence assessments on Iraq and Al Qaida relations" that were "inconsistent" with the intelligence community's consensus view in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Intelligence provided by former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon's inspector general....
12 February, 2007
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