SUBJECT:
Attempts to Sucker You Into Russia-Bashing
Dear
President-elect Biden,
“
Fool Me Once …”
You may recall that President George W. Bush
could not remember the last part of that
aphorism. No matter. It turned out that — on
Iraq — Bush was not fooled by bad intelligence.
Rather, he and Vice President Dick Cheney were
determined to attack Iraq and asked malleable
former colleagues of ours to manufacture
intelligence to “justify” that catastrophic war.
It was so bad that
Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Jay
Rockefeller described prewar intelligence as
“unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even
non-existent.” James Clapper, who was in charge
of imagery analysis, admits in his memoir that