The intel community seemed to have internalized a popular theory that Saddam and al Qaeda would not cooperate, even in areas of mutual strategic interest, because of their conflicting ideologies. On that theory, the intel community had filtered older, conflicting evidence out of their intel work. A common trait among all institutions that rely on evidence to support theories. I have seen this many times during my own career.
Be wary of anomolies....they have a way of coming back to bite you in the ass.
Have you seen this post? Some eye-opening statements about the Docex translations from Jveritas.
Abusing Intelligence (Jveritas Alert)
Yahoo News and the Weekly Standard ^ | February 19, 2007 | Michael Tanji
Posted on 02/19/2007 10:51:52 PM EST by april15Bendovr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787697/posts