July 13, 2004

Articifial Intelligence

Is this trickle of evidence against Bush & Co starting to become a flood? Slate's Today's Papers section puts it all in a nutshell:

"The CIA's leading Saddam nuke-monger withheld evidence from analysts who disagreed with him, misrepresented his colleagues' assessments, and distributed info inside and outside the agency that was 'at minimum, misleading.' Then there's the fact that the 2002 intelligence estimate gave a one in two chance that Iraq had the smallpox virus, even though the only fresh intelligence came from a single defector in 2000. What's more, the CIA made a pattern of excising qualifiers and caveats from its dossiers. Worse, the 2002 assessment of Iraq's biological threat was upgraded almost exclusively on information provided by one individual - who has since been exposed as a fraud - bent on hyping mobile bioweapons labs. Apparently the one U.S. official who met this individual thought he was an alcoholic, and, no, TP isn't joking when it says the individual's code name was 'Curve Ball.'"

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