Tuesday, June 13, 2006

What they do best

When the Wall Street Journal tries to argue, as they do in a Tuesday editorial (subs. req'd; alt. free link), that the Pentagon wasn't running its own intelligence shop that selectively presented information about a supposed Saddam-al Qaeda linkage, they really need to do better than having their main substantive evidence being ... selective presentation:

Mr. [Doug] Feith's office did not freelance an "alternative analysis." Much of the work it did on the Iraq-al Qaeda connection was a response to a question for the record posed by the Senate Intelligence Committee itself. Nor did the Defense Department "assert" a "strong connection." Judging by leaked excerpts of the still highly classified work printed in the Weekly Standard, DOD merely provided the committee with a list of raw intelligence items on the topic.

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