Cheney's & Feith's OSP Twisted Intel: New Report

Of course, this is not new to those who closely watched the buildup to the war and those Cheney underlings at the center of the disinformation campaign (The Guardian had a special investigation back in 2003 on "the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force").

However, oversight (so sorely lacking under the rape-and-spend Republican leadership) by the new Democratic Congress is bringing more of this story to the light of day: the Pentagon inspector-general is now finding that the OSP's actions were "inappropriate" - not to put too hard an edge on it.

Tick ... tick ... tick ...

Meanwhile, Feith (Cheney's bitch at OSP) nearly busts a vein on NPR trying to talk himself out of this shitstorm ...

NPR has the full text of the executive summary doc from the Pentagon ... "(Cheney & Feith's) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy developed, produced and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Quaida relationship ... to senior decision-makers... the actions were ... inappropriate given that the intelligence assessments ... did not clearly show the variance with the consensus of the Intelligence Community. This condition occurred because of an expanded role and mission of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from policy fomulation to alternative intelligence analysis and dissemination."

That's right. In case you're having trouble reading between the lines: Cheney elevated Feith from something he was bad at (policy formulation) to something he was bad and deadly dangerous at (intelligence analysis and dissemination), and then loosed him on The Decider to help bolster the case for what we all now know (and many knew then) was a misguided, disastrous war.

Thanks, DICK.