Feithed

For those of you unfamiliar with how pre-war intelligence was subverted and politicized, Jon Stewart offers a rather hilarious summation (via Crooks & Liars). One of my favourite sound bytes from Stewart’s piece is when Feith claims that the United States is “in trouble in Iraq because of errors that the CIA made�.

That assertion alone is unbelievable being that elements within the CIA presented evidence that Iraq’s nuclear program had been dead for more than a decade, information that was never included in any PDB. By that time, of course, the CIA was becoming a partisan haunt where a new breed were quick to attempt to provide the administration with what it needed. In the months following the invasion the CIA’s Baghdad station chief wrote two aardwolfs frankly detailing the deteriorating situation in Iraq and the growing dangers posed by the insurgency. But because his briefs dramatically clashed with White House policy objectives, he was ultimately removed in December of 2003.