Friday, December 7, 2012

The Politicization Of U.S. Intelligence



Politicizing The Truth -- Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon

Former officials: CIA politicized intelligence on Benghazi.

The CIA removed references to al Qaeda in the talking points it drafted for United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice in what critics say is part of a broad pattern of politicization of intelligence under the Obama administration.

Current and former intelligence and policy officials say that the politicization in the case of Benghazi appears to have involved policies that were designed to minimize the threat posed by Islamist terrorists in general and the al Qaeda terrorist group in particular prior to the Nov. 6 presidential election.

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My Comment: The previous Bush administration was criticized for politicizing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq .... and now we have the Obama being criticized for politicizing the intelligence on Benghazi. As the French enjoy saying .... plus ca change .... plus c'est le meme chose .... the more things change, the more that they stay the same.

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