Pre- WAR Intelligence. Three Words: The Vice President

Here's a small round up from the The Democratic Policy Committee that held a hearing on June 26, 2006 in the afternoon on the manipulation of pre-war Iraq intelligence.

"The main issue every member had was with the OSP (Office of Special Plans) that was run by Douglas Feith and the like. This was the secret intel group that prepared and delivered the more important Iraq briefings directly to Bush, and more importantly, in Larry Wilkerson's words, "the Vice-President."

Wilkerson: "As a Republican, I'm somewhat embarrassed by the fact that you're the only member of my party here"

Wikipedia:
The Office of Special Plans (OSP), which existed from September 2002 to June 2003, was a Pentagon unit created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and headed by Feith, as charged by then-U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, to supply senior Bush administration officials with raw intelligence (unvetted by intelligence analysts, see Stovepiping) pertaining to Iraq. An allegedly-similar unit, called the Iranian Directorate, was created several years later, in 2006, to deal with intelligence on Iran.
Senator Carl Levin, Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated that "The bottom line is that intelligence relating to the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship was manipulated by high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense to support the administration's decision to invade Iraq. The inspector general's report is a devastating condemnation of inappropriate activities in the DOD policy office that helped take this nation to war".

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