Progressive Minds

Is the Bush Administration once again fixing the facts around the policy in order to justify a pre-emptive invasion of another country?

We learned from the Downing Street Memo that in the lead-up to the Iraq war:

"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

Now we learn from author Seymour Hersh that the Bush Administration may be ignoring the information it is receiving from within the intelligence community, relative to Iran.

In an article for The New Yorker magazine, Hersh writes:

"The CIA found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency.  A current senior intelligence official confirmed the existence of the CIA analysis, and told me that the White House had been hostile to it."

White House brushes off CIA draft on Iran: report