"Alarmed by the takeover of the US intelligence apparatus by philosophers, hawks and ideologues, former senior CIA analyst Ray McGovern formed the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. The Pentagon's claims about wmd in Iraq were "an intelligence fiasco of monumental proporti-ons," said McGovern. He claims that Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz established their own intelligence unit because the CIA wasn't giving the hawks the "correct answers." Joining the chorus of criticism of politicized intelligence, Patrick Lang, a former director of Middle East analysis at the Pentagon's DIA said that Rumsfeld set up the OSP to undermine the CIA and DIA and then mounted a threat-assessment campaign that was "political pro-paganda," not intelligence. " Barry in article linked below.
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