Use of deceptive intelligence data by pro-war Bush administration officials in lead-up to war on Iraq being further exposed
In his book, "At the Center of the Storm," former Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet describes efforts by Pentagon and White House officials to subvert pre-Iraq war intelligence assessment by the CIA.
Tenet focuses on the actions of a group inside the Pentagon that sent the Bush administration bogus intelligence on Iraq's weapons program and ties to terrorist organizations that supported the administration's policy.
This group was recently criticized by a Department of Defense inspector general report from February 9, 2007, which found that a policy shop known as "the Office of Special Plans," headed by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, acted "inappropriately" by cooking intelligence to reflect a "mature and symbiotic" relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda. This characterization was never supported by the CIA, but was presented as fact by Feith's office to White House policy makers in the runup to the Iraq war.
Full story: United States: Tenet Battled With the Office of Special Plans
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