"Vir. Intelligence has nothing to do with politics." -- Babylon 5
J. Michael Straczynski spoke a truth that can be taken in so many ways. The way that the Senate intelligence committee has taken it was that Team Bush's politics bent the intelligence like a pretzel and that they "repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even non-existent." This report, part of a series, has been a source of partisan bickering. And when Team Bush wasn't cherry picking the intel for public consumption to support it's war effort, the Senate also found that the Pentagon was keeping intel on Iran from the CIA, an act driven by mistrust between Rummy and Lord Cheney. What a shame that Team Bush's politics had to lend so much truth a science fiction television show's insight.
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