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A year after retiring from the CIA, Tyler Drumheller, the agency’s former head of spying in Europe, tells CBS 60 minutes that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence leading up to the war with Iraq. “The idea of going after Iraq was US policy,” Drumheller says. “It was going to happen one way or the other. ... The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming. And they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy.” As an example, Drumheller notes how administration officials would accept single-sourced intelligence when it supported their views, but reject it as uncorroborated when it did not. [CBS News, 4/23/2006]

The real tragedy of this," Drumheller says, "is if they had let the weapons inspectors play out, we could have had a Gulf War I-like coalition, which would have given us the 300,000 to 400,000 troops needed to secure the country after defeating the Iraqi army."

Paul Gimigliano, a C.I.A. spokesman, did not address Mr. Drumheller's accusations.

"Tyler Drumheller is a former employee expressing his personal opinions," Mr. Gimigliano said. "They are not the official views of the Central Intelligence Agency."

“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. … This was a policy failure. … I think, over time, people will look back on this and see this is going to be one of the great, I think, policy mistakes of all time,” Drumheller tells Bradley.’

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A portion of the recent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence investigation, which has been ignored by the mainstream media, debunks Drumheller’s claims. The report reads, in part: "Both the operations cable and the intelligence report prepared for high-level policy-makers [based on interrogation of the source] said that while Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapon, he was aggressively and covertly developing such a weapon.

"Iraq was producing and stockpiling chemical weapons” and the Senate Report adds "The committee is still exploring why the former chief/EUR's [Drumheller’s] public remarks differ so markedly from the documentation."

Drumheller seems part of the "Shadow Government" that exists in the CIA/State Dept., regardless of whether he has resinged from the CIA. If this is linked to the Rockefeller memo and the DNC, interesting investigations might give Fitzgerald, or better yet someone honest, quite a bit to do.

It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. … This was a policy failure. … I think, over time, people will look back on this and see this is going to be one of the great, I think, policy mistakes of all time,” Drumheller tells Bradley.’

Arrogance on parade. And the man has a HUGE craw to stick it in too.

"A year after retiring from the CIA, Tyler Drumheller, the agency’s former head of spying in Europe, tells CBS.."

As soon as one sees that this puke is on See BS, it's obvious that he has an anti-pub agenda. It's not right to term it an anti-Bush agenda - they are anti-Pubbies!! Bush is just a surrogate for their hate and craziness!