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TV Review:'Truth, War And Consequences', Selective Intelligence on Road to
Baghdad, NYTimes
 









Excerpts: Greg Thielmann, who left his post as director of the strategic,
proliferation and military affairs office in the State Department's Bureau of
Intelligence and Research last September, also describes in dispassionate tones
how the State Department's intelligence reports were ignored or sanded down to
suit the White House's case. Calling the administration's approach "faith-based
intelligence," Mr. Thielmann says, "They were cherry-picking the information
that we provided to use whatever pieces of it fit their overall
interpretation."

What the documentary does not point out is that every administration routinely
ignores its most experienced in-house experts. The banks of the Potomac are
littered with the spent careers of C.I.A. analysts and foreign service
professionals who had discordant assessments of El Salvador, Bosnia and Iraq.
Source: TV Review:'Truth, War And Consequences', Selective Intelligence on Road
to Baghdad[ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/arts/television/09STAN.html  ],
Alessandra Stanley, NYTimes, 03/10/09

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