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AlterNet: War on Iraq: News Log: CIA bullied by Cheney and Co.
Posted by Lakshmi on June 5, 2003 @ 9:36AM

Senior CIA analysts have told the Washington Post that they felt pressured to come up with right kind of intelligence during repeated visits to Langley by Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. The men "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here."

More than Cheney and Rumsfeld, the full-court press to deliver the goods came from senior aides like Paul Wolfowitz: "'They were the browbeaters,' said a former defense intelligence official who attended some of the meetings in which Wolfowitz and others pressed for a different approach to the assessments they were receiving. 'In interagency meetings,' he said, 'Wolfowitz treated the analysts' work with contempt.'"

posted by LoZo 5:10 PM