[Toshi]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1141401,00.html

Precisely because of the qualms the administration encountered, it created a rogue intelligence operation, the Office of Special Plans, located within the Pentagon and under the control of neo-conservatives. The OSP roamed outside the ordinary inter-agency process, stamping its approval on stories from Iraqi exiles that the other agencies dismissed as lacking credibility, and feeding them to the president.

sorry if this has been posted before.

 

[Toshi]

 

[ummbikes]

I have posted a few times (as others have too) about The Project for the American Century.

They have a great website.

You should check it out N8.

 

[Silver]

Of course there was no failure of intelligence.

They wanted a reason to invade Iraq, and they got it. Now, the intelligence appears to have been WRONG, but I'd hardly call that a failure in this case.