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Let’s see. The 911 Commission delayed looking into the Bush administration’s role in events leading up to the 911 attacks and the march to war afterwards, until after the election. And then decides that such an investigation is not needed. Because the first report says that it was the fault of the “intelligence community.”

Now we get a report that again points the blame at the “intelligence community.”

At his brief White House appearance yesterday, Silberman noted that the executive order signed by the president last year ”did not direct us to deal with the use of intelligence by policymakers, and all of us were agreed that was not part of our inquiry.” Yet both he and Robb went out of their way to excuse those same policymakers for misuse of the flawed Iraq intelligence.

Salon.com | It’s all the CIA’s fault

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