Friday, February 09, 2007

Defense Department Inspector General Report: DoD Policy Office Acted Within Law and Authority

Findings of a Defense Department Inspector General report sent to Congress today offer the third determination that activities within DoD's policy office regarding pre-war intelligence were both legal and authorized...

The report concluded that activities by the office were both legal and authorized,
but that some may have been inappropriate.

Feith's office developed, produced and then disseminated "alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaeda relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community, to senior decision makers," the report noted in its unclassified executive summary.

"While such actions were not illegal or unauthorized," it continued, "the actions were, in our opinion, inappropriate given that the intelligence assessments were intelligence products and did not clearly show the variance with the consensus of the intelligence community."
Read this story by DoD
HERE

Here’s one take of the report by AP Military Writer, Robert Burns.
Click it out at link below...

Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel

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