A quandry over intelligence

Now that George Tenet states that he never described Iraq as an imminent threat, the Bush administration avers that neither did they! And Bush wants an inquiry to locate the intelligence breakdown.

The only intelligence breakdown is his, in thinking that the public will fall for this again.

Ever since 2001, various experts and intelligence analysts, including David Kay in 2001 and 2004, the International Atomic Energy Authority in 1997, Powell in February 2001, the United Nations and the Department of Energy in 2002, the CIA in February 2002 and many others have said that Iraq posed no significant threat, even to its neighbors. Ignoring the experts, the White House created the Office of Sponsored Programs to circumvent the intelligence community and to manufacture intelligence to its liking.

Despite all evidence to the contrary, White House communications director Dan Bartlett, the president, Donald Rumsfeld, Ari Fleischer, Dick Cheney, Scott

McClellan and others have continually described Iraq as an urgent, imminent or grave threat to the United States. We all heard it and read it.

We are now told that intelligence is not a science, but an art. If intelligence is not a science, what would be the basis for launching a war?

Just asking!

Walter Maloney

Los Angeles, Calif.

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