Saturday, November 05, 2005

How bad was the Intel given to the Public?

Editor & Publisher provides a short summary of some of the findings reporter Doug Jehl of The New York Times will report in the Sunday edition on Nov 6.

The pattern seems to be that when evidence of any quality confirms what the managers want to see proven it is grabbed onto and disseminated, while doubts are suppressed. There were doubts about the sources this E & P article describes, but the public never heard about them. The NY Times article is based on the memo of one such doubt about the validity of what a captured al Qaeda prisoner was telling our Intelligence people.

Read the article. It's short but informative.

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