[Skybird]

I often said that politicians actively ignored input from the intel community, instead forced them to produce the kind of "info" they wanted and needed to bring the public behind the war (that was preplanned and outlined in a paper by wolfowitz in the early 90s, then was sunk into a drawer during the Clinton years). Due to this manipulation of intel data, or better: it'S replacement by propaganda, I often said that the administration was lying. Of course they made it appear afterwards as if they had been given bad data by the intel services, and that it all was the CIA's fault. The usual blame-game of politicians and high-ranking officials with stakes in the game.