Abusing Intelligence (Jveritas Alert)

Yahoo News and the Weekly Standard ^ | February 19, 2007 | Michael Tanji

[april15Bendovr]

"There is really only one source of first-hand information on what was and was not going on in Iraq prior to the war: the captured document collection held by Pentagon and Army intelligence. The government has admitted that it cannot fully and effectively analyze all the information it had gathered from Iraq--including reports that supported connections between Iraq and terrorists--and in fact they have stopped trying. Former Director of National Intelligence Negroponte begrudgingly released portions of the archive online for public review and analysis, but the most contrived excuse in the world--that an inadvertent disclosure about Iraq's retarded nuclear weapons program helped advance the progress of an active program in Iran--shut down the public effort this past fall. If politicians are truly concerned about finding out who called it right on Iraq, the focus of their angst should be aimed squarely at current-DNI McConnell, not ex-Undersecretary Feith."

"and in fact they have stopped trying" Why?

[Admin Moderator]

Please provide a working link for this.

[cripplecreek]

an inadvertent disclosure about Iraq's retarded nuclear weapons program helped advance the progress of an active program in Iran

A ridiculous excuse if you ask me.

[Calpernia]

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[Calpernia]

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[kinoxi]

Interesting chat.

[Calpernia]

I found a copy here:

https://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/290fenpf.asp
Abusing Intelligence
Difficult though it may be, we need to de-politicize intelligence.
by Michael Tanji
02/16/2007 12:00:00 AM

[Admin Moderator]

Thanks for helping find the link, Calpernia.

[april15Bendovr]

My apologies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20070219/cm_weeklystandard/abusingintelligence

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

an inadvertent disclosure about Iraq's retarded nuclear weapons program helped advance the progress of an active program in Iran

Yeah, that whole issue was ridiculous...the MSM wanted us to believe that:

A. Pre-war Iraq was not a threat
B. Pre-war Iraq was in possession of dangerous information concerning nuclear weapons technology that could make other states a threat if they were to obtain that information.

The yellow lib press wants to have it both ways.

[BIGLOOK]

MI ping

[Anti-Bubba182]

CYA is the main work product of the intellegence agencies.

[Calpernia]

:)

[april15Bendovr]

Thank you for your help while I was absent minded on the URL

[jveritas]

I cannot express how disappointed I am that the Iraqi DOCEX project website was shut down. In a matter of 7 months when the website was operating we knew more through the captured documents about Saddam strong relation to terrorism and his continuous work on WMD programs than all the intelligence available to us from 1991-2003.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Now that was a good article and certainly reflects my experiences in MI in the 90's.

Of course Nancy Pelosi in Iraq questioning some poor young female SPC 96B on the misuse of pre-war intell was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen....

[april15Bendovr]

"CYA is the main work product of the intellegence agencies."

That plus the fact that Senator Torricelli cut our intelligence capabilities. Negroponte probably had no choice but to ask for help from people like Jveritas to help translate with the Docex Project.

[april15Bendovr]

Now our enemy has the support of ignorance.

Its like Mark Twain has stated

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."

[jveritas]

Ridiculous beyond belief. There is nothing in Iraq nuclear that was published on the FMSO website that can benefit Iran. Anyway this disputed "published document" about Iraq nuclear program was a part of the 1996 FFCD (Full Final and Complete Disclosure) that Saddam regime submitted to the UN and IAEA in September 1996 and talk about all aspect of their WMD program, chemical, biological and nuclear.

If Iran thought anything would have been beneficial for their nuclear program from this 1996 FFCD they would have many years to get it from one way or another from the corrupted UN and IAEA.

The Iranian would have waited for the US to publish it in September 2006 where at this point of time Iran nuclear program was already more advanced than anything the Iraqi nuclear program was and there was absolutely nothing that Iran would have benefited from the Iraqi FFCD document published in September 2006 on the FMSO website.

[jveritas]

Exactly.