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Patrick Lang, a former director of Middle East analysis at the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview with the New Yorker magazine in May that the Office of Special Plans "started picking out things that supported their thesis and stringing them into arguments that they could use with the president. It's not intelligence. It's political propaganda." - SOURCE

Seymour Hersh quotes Patrick Lang regarding Rumsfeld: 2003-05-12 - "The Pentagon has banded together to dominate the government’s foreign policy, and they’ve pulled it off. They’re running Chalabi. The D.I.A. has been intimidated and beaten to a pulp. And there’s no guts at all in the C.I.A."

Walter Pincus quotes Patrick Lang disputing Iraq/Al-Qaeda ties with regards to "CASE CLOSED": "(The Weekly Standard report) is a listing of a mass of unconfirmed reports, many of which themselves indicate that the two groups continued to try to establish some sort of relationship. If they had such a productive relationship, why did they have to keep trying?" - SOURCE FR thread

NYT's Nicholas Kristof quotes Patrick Lang that when experts wrote reports that were skeptical about Iraq's W.M.D., "they were encouraged to think it over again."

Lang make an appearance in UNCOVERED: THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR along with Joseph Wilson, Scott Ritter, Rand Beers, Henry Waxman, Robert Baer, and David Corn.