has just been released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The report looked into the WMD issue pre-war to try and figure out what went wrong, and the conclusions are pretty scathing. Joseph Cirincione was quoted on CNN yesterday morning:
…we looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we have come to the conclusion that it is broken, that it has now become deeply politicized, that it is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials, to conform their threat assessments to preexisting policies.
I highly doubt this will have much of an affect on the Bush Administration, unfortunately. But the underlying teleological character of the current gang in Washington is obvious: they have already formulated their conclusions; their ongoing task is to fit events to lead to those conclusions.
