[Catalonia]

If they no longer work for the CIA how can they know the intelligence was 'cooked'?

[oceanview]

Well it certainly wasn't accurate, so that leaves open someone to make an allegation that it was "cooked".

This may be more of a problem for Blair then Bush, but still, the inability to find this stuff is not good. And it will call into question any future claims by the intelligence community about issues like this. I have to be honest, if Bush now told us that the WMD was buried in the Bekaa Valley, should be believe that intelligence is accurate? That is a real problem, the loss of credibility.

[EverOnward]

"If they no longer work for the CIA how can they know the intelligence was 'cooked'?"

The whole story is fabricated. CIA employees can be prosecuted for divulging classified information and should be.