The CIA Admits That It Blew It On Saddam’s WMD

Iraq: How The CIA Says It Blew It On Saddam’s WMD -- Mark Thompson, Time

Now that we’re out of Iraq, the CIA has come clean on how it came to be bamboozled about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) ferrets over at the National Security Archive (NSA) petitioned for, and got, the CIA’s equivalent of the dog-ate-my-homework (technically, the NSA obtained this document under a mandatory-declassification-review request it made in 2006, which can be faster [It still took six years!] than an FOIA request, if the requester has sufficient details on a specific document).

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Update: A Classified CIA Mea Culpa on Iraq -- Foreign Policy

My Comment: No one is fired. No one is punished or demoted. No one is held accountable for this screw-up that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands. No one and nothing.

But what makes me even more mad is that this incredible CIA "mea-culpa" is only being covered by a handful in the press .... giving an impression that after all of this war and coverage .... in the end no one really cares.