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03/31/2005:

"Panel: Agencies 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq WMDs"

WASHINGTON (AP) - America's spy agencies were "dead wrong" in most prewar assessments about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and know disturbingly little about current nuclear threats, a presidential commission said Thursday.

"Our collection agencies are often unable to gather intelligence on the very things we care the most about," the panel concluded in an unsparing report.

It recommended dozens of organizational changes, and said President Bush can implement most of them without congressional action. It also urged the president to back up John Negroponte, his choice to be the new director of national intelligence, in any bureaucratic turf battles ahead.

"The central conclusion is one which I share. America's intelligence community needs fundamental change," Bush said at the White House after receiving the critique from a commission he was at first reluctant to appoint.
Full Article:apnews.my.com

I think my outrage quotient is all used up for the time being. This is how they are playing off their WMD scam. But hey they count on mass amnesia and that's a good bet.