文件顯露PR推擠為伊拉克戰爭在之前的英特爾研究結果
由尼克・ Juliano | 新的文件從布什政府和美國情報機構內部在迅猛增長期間到伊拉克的入侵顯露白宮開始裝配論點為戰爭，在它編寫了外表形成那個案件的依據的英特爾之前。
A 新的報告關於本文 從喬治・華盛頓大學的國家安全檔案也提出確鑿的證據布什政府迫使CIA和其他情報機構為他們的報告專門製作備用布什的慾望侵略。 報告建議大多數這努力是被用盡的Dick Cheney副總統的辦公室，支持許多道路的其他戰後考試到看見Cheney作為計劃策劃者驅逐Saddam Hussein的入侵。
檔案出版了CIA 「白皮書」的7月2002日匯票在伊拉克的大規模殺傷性武器。 草稿在薩達姆的政權準備了幾個月在一個國家情報估計之前，國會沒有要求直到9月，雖然最後的「白皮書」在10月發布了據稱總結那非常NIE。
除檔案的最近得到的文件之外，博士。 約翰Prados，編寫報告，戰前智力操作的被審查的早先調查例如最近完整參議院情報委員會「階段II」報告關於政府官員』戰前修辭和書在主題例如前白宮發言人斯科特McClellan的回憶錄。
他結束了，實質上，布什政府櫻桃採摘了智力辯解入侵，托尼・布萊爾的英國的政府是complicit在導致搖晃的智力在薩達姆的WMDs，管理形象-特別是Cheney -迫使CIA給他們什麼他們想要，并且咬邊論點為戰爭的智力被忽略了傾向於較不支持管理信仰的可靠的來源。
• 階段II報告關於布什政府公開聲明，與SSCI的原始的7月2004日報告一道關於伊拉克的宣稱的大規模殺傷性武器，表明政治操作在智力之外在伊拉克延伸了對智力失敗的影響調查並且對那信息的布什政府的用途。
• 與其他最近被撤銷機密的材料一道，階段II報告表示，懇求智力然後使用的布什政府「證實」它的公開要求。
• 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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