“The new information indicates a pattern in which President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their subordinates — in public and behind the scenes — made allegations depicting Iraq’s nuclear weapons program as more active, more certain and more imminent in its threat than the data they had would support. On occasion administration advocates withheld evidence that did not conform to their views. The White House seldom corrected misstatements or acknowledged loss of confidence in information upon which it had previously relied …”
That’s one key graf from this morning’s article (“Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence”) in the Washington Post, which runs down numerous details in the Iraq-intel-manipulation story. But frankly it’s filled with key grafs. Frankly, it’s the best single newspaper piece I’ve seen on the subject to date. Take particular note of Cheney’s role — not so much his deceptiveness as his ingenuousness, his poor judgment.
