...a tangled web....

Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq Intelligence 'Misused' to Justify War, He Says The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein.