According to David Ignatius, in this morning's WaPo (registration required), he did: The problem with Bolton, in fact , is that he epitomizes the politicization of intelligence that helped produce the fiasco over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration has so far managed to evade any real accounting for its role in the Iraqi WMD blunder, letting the intelligence community take the hit. But the Bolton saga is a microcosm of that larger failure: It's the story of a policymaker who tried to pressure intelligence analysts into supporting WMD views that turned out to be wrong.
Here is the key sentence in Ignatius story: According to the 1999 NIE "Cuba had a "limited, developmental, offensive biological warfare research and development effort." A limited R&D effort may become a threat - but it was apparently less of a threat than Bolton wanted.
Herb,
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Posted by: alan bream | April 25, 2005 at 08:52 AM