This--NYT News Analysis: Senate Report Does Little to Still Debate on C.I.A.'s Prewar Data--strikes me as obvious. Did the CIA come to the Bush administration and tell them that Iraq was an imminent threat to the United States? I think not. Yet, this "It's the CIA's fault for the faulty WMD data" meme seems likely to take hold in the public consciousness. Let's hope not.
Let's not forget this: the Bush administration went to the CIA looking for reasons to go to war with Iraq. The evidence may've been inaccurate, but it's what they were pushing for. They wanted to justify a pre-emptive attack against Iraq. They wanted to finished a war that should've ended a decade before.
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