Rumsfeld: Square peg, round hole? No problem

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The New York Times reports that Rumsfeld and his pals aren’t happy with the facts that the CIA and the rest of the intelligence community have reported. So, they’re going to come up with some facts of their own. They’ve created a new intelligence task force to make sure they find “information on Iraq’s hostile intentions or links to terrorists that the nation’s spy agencies may have overlooked.”

Anybody doubt they’ll find the “overlooked fact” that Osama and Saddam go fishing together all the time or something similar?

Wolfowitz has balls. In explaining why they won’t accept the intelligence community’s consensus and why they’ve had to create this group, he told the Times:

He described “a phenomenon in intelligence work, that people who are pursuing a certain hypothesis will see certain facts that others won’t, and not see other facts that others will.”

“The lens through which you’re looking for facts affects what you look for,” he added.

Lens indeed. Let’s roll!

Oct 24, 2002 | Comments

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