No response yet from McClellan or the usual apologists to this:
In a scathing report, a presidential commission said Thursday that America's spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most of their judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war and that the United States knows "disturbingly little" about the weapons programs and threats posed by many of the nation's most dangerous adversaries.
The commission called for dramatic change to prevent future failures. It outlined more than 70 recommendations, saying that President Bush must give John Negroponte, the new director of national intelligence, broader powers for overseeing the nation's 15 spy agencies.
It also called for sweeping changes at the FBI to combine the bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence resources into a new office.
Get with the program, guys. Don't you know it was never about the WMD in the first place? "Yellowcake" is what the Administration was going to serve to our troops upon their triumphant return from bringing democracy to Iraq.
"We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction," the commission said in a report to the president. "This was a major intelligence failure."
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"On a matter of this importance, we simply cannot afford failures of this magnitude," the report said.
And yet we keep committing them. Funny thing, that.
Not "ha ha" funny, however.
John Negroponte- When I first found his name in print, I figured it had to be a joke. I'm no racist, but I think it's latin for "Point out the black Man". Maybe he's related to the jazz musician John-Luc Ponte. That guy plays an electric violin complete with distrotion/flanger/chorus/etc. Again funny, but not funny ha ha.