Something important to keep in mind
The latest from The Daily Mislead reminded me that last Friday's Senate Intelligence Committee report was rather quickly rushed through the media, and while some elements are lingering at the start of the week too many news programs about it this week have a "nothing to see here" feel to them with respect to the Bush Administration. Elements of the report, not to mention comments made by several of the committee members during the press conference, emphasized how strongly the Bush Administration pressed for information to support their preconceived intention to attack Iraq.
What disturbs me the most about how the report is being ushered through as if it not only somehow absolves the White House of blame, but is somehow the last word on the subject. Few seem to be emphasizing the fact that the issues of how the White House chose which information to use, and how it not only misused some information but continued to use information well after it was debunked, was largely left out of this report because all of that is supposed to be covered in a separate report... to be issued sometime after the November elections. To put it another way, the CIA and US Intelligence services in general are put in a bad light by this recent report largely because the focus was limited to them, not - as many would have us believe - because they were found to be the only problem.
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