"A war against intelligence" by Robert Scheer (sfgate.com)

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/27/EDG6PKDU371.DTL

"A war against intelligence"
by Robert Scheer

snip:

YOU WOULD think that a consensus report from all 16 U.S. intelligence services concluding that he has blown the "war on terror" would be a really big deal to the president. But that assumes that George W. Bush values intelligence.

Clearly, he does not. So the news that a 2006 National Intelligence Estimate concludes the threat of terror against the United States has increased since 9/11, largely thanks to his irrational invasion of Iraq, has not disturbed Bush's branded "what, me worry'' countenance.

Instead, predictably, the administration's response to the leaked conclusions of the shared assessments of both civilian and military intelligence agencies was the same old historically ignorant claptrap that leaves U.S. policies completely out of the equation.

"Their hatred for freedom and liberty did not develop overnight," said White House spokesman Peter Watkins. "Those seeds were planted decades ago."

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/09/27/EDG6PKDU371.DTL