WTF Is It Now?!?

US spy agencies not taking blame if banned weapons are not found
The US intelligence community says it will not pay the price for the alleged exaggeration of the Iraqi threat.

"All I can tell you is there is a general feeling among CIA analysts that intelligence was politicized and that the CIA and (Defense Intelligence Agency) was not given full consideration because the Pentagon, the policymakers, including the vice-president's office, did not want to hear that message. They wanted to hear a hardline message supporting a policy they already adopted," Vincent Cannistraro, former counterterrorism chief for the Central Intelligence Agency, said.

Three internal complaints charging mishandling of information were filed with the CIA by employees, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Former intelligence officers also have formed a group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, to defend the agency's reputation.

CIA Director George Tenet also is defending his agency's reputation. "Our role is to call it like we see it, to tell policymakers what we know, what we don't know, what we think and what we base it on," he said Saturday.

"The integrity of our process was maintained throughout and any suggestion to the contrary is simply wrong." - link.