Thursday, July 8, 2004
No pressure put on intelligence analysts
The unanimous report by the [bipartisan Senate] panel will say there is no evidence that intelligence officials were subjected to pressure to reach particular conclusions about Iraq. That issue had been an early focus of Democrats, but none of the more than 200 intelligence officials interviewed by the panel made such a claim, and the Democrats have recently focused criticism on the question of whether the intelligence was misused.
So, how can the Left skew this? Perhaps "Bush should have pressured them to reach the right conclusion" or "Bush's reliance on the CIA is a symbol of his incompetence" or, most likely, "Bush pressured the analysts to lie!!!! (Bush is like Hitler!)"