文件显露PR推挤为伊拉克战争在之前的英特尔研究结果
由尼克· Juliano | 新的文件从布什政府和美国情报机构内部在迅猛增长期间到伊拉克的入侵显露白宫开始装配论点为战争，在它编写了外表形成那个案件的依据的英特尔之前。
A 新的报告关于本文 从乔治·华盛顿大学的国家安全档案也提出确凿的证据布什政府迫使CIA和其他情报机构为他们的报告专门制作备用布什的欲望侵略。 报告建议大多数这努力是被用尽的Dick Cheney副总统的办公室，支持许多道路的其他战后考试到看见Cheney作为计划策划者驱逐Saddam Hussein的入侵。
档案出版了CIA “白皮书”的7月2002日汇票在伊拉克的大规模杀伤性武器。 草稿在萨达姆的政权准备了几个月在一个国家情报估计之前，国会没有要求直到9月，虽然最后的“白皮书”在10月发布了据称总结那非常NIE。
除档案的最近得到的文件之外，博士。 约翰Prados，编写报告，在主题审查了战前智力操作的早先调查例如最近完整参议院情报委员会“阶段II”报告关于政府官员’战前修辞和书例如前白宫发言人斯科特McClellan的回忆录。
他结束了，实质上，布什政府樱桃采摘了智力辩解入侵，托尼·布莱尔的英国的政府是complicit在导致摇晃的智力在萨达姆的WMDs，管理形象-特别是Cheney -迫使CIA给他们什么他们想要，并且咬边论点为战争的智力被忽略了倾向于较不支持管理信仰的可靠的来源。
• 阶段II报告关于布什政府公开声明，与SSCI的原始的7月2004日报告一道关于伊拉克的宣称的大规模杀伤性武器，在伊拉克表明在智力被扩大的政治操作之外到智力失败的影响调查并且对那信息的布什政府的用途。
• 与其他最近被撤销机密的材料一道，阶段II报告表示，恳求智力然后使用的布什政府“证实”它的公开要求。
• A recently declassified draft of the CIA’s October 2002 white paper on Iraqi WMD programs demonstrates that that paper long pre-dated the compilation of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraqi capabilities.
• The timing of the CIA’s draft white paper coincides with a previously available draft of the British Government’s white paper on Iraqi WMD, demonstrating that the Bush administration and the Tony Blair government began acting in concert to build support for an invasion of Iraq two to three months earlier than previously understood.
• A comparison of the CIA draft white paper with its publicly released edition shows that all the changes made were in the nature of strengthening its charges against Iraq by inserting additional alarming claims, in the manner of an advocacy, or public relations document. The draft and final papers show no evidence of intelligence analysis applied to the information contained. Similar comparison of the British white paper shows the same phenomenon at work.
• Declassified Pentagon documents demonstrate that the CIA white paper was modified in ways that conformed to the desires of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and his office, in much the same way that British documents indicate that country’s white paper was changed to conform to the desires of the Blair government.
The CIA was under enormous pressure, which resulted in its production of a White Paper that did not conform to the facts, according to the report.
“Under the circumstances, it is difficult to avoid the impression that the CIA and other intelligence agencies defended themselves against the dangers of attack from the Bush administration through a process of self-censorship,” Prados writes. “That is the very essence of politicization in intelligence.”
He goes on to report that CIA reports had “the character of rhetoric” and did not reflect “the kind of approach characteristic of intelligence analysis.”
The Archive’s report backs up similar contentions that first came to light with release of the Downing Street memo in 2005 and have been reinforced in scores of books and investigative articles. Most recently, investigative journalist Ron Suskind reported in his new book The Way of the World that the British government was secretly in contact before the invasion with the chief of Iraq’s intelligence services who told them unequivocally that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons stockpiles. That revelation — received in plenty of time to delay the invasion — was ignored, Suskind wrote.
Prados reports on other sources the CIA had developed among scientists in Iraq and within Saddam’s foreign minister. Information they provided was ignored in favor of what was later revealed to be untrue exaggerations passed along by Iraqi exiles.
The White Paper went through several drafts, Prados writes, and it is clear to see the administration’s influence in its preparation.
“The net impression is that the CIA white paper was rewritten to conform to administration preferences. If so, U.S. intelligence a priori made itself a tool of a political effort, vitiating the intelligence function and confirming the presence of a politicized process,” he writes. “The specific analytic failures on Iraq intelligence become much less significant in such a climate, especially in that they all yielded intelligence predictions of exactly the kind the Bush administration wanted to hear.”
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