Pentagon official's prewar intel faulted
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A leading figure in the Bush administration's march to war in Iraq helped justify the 2003 invasion by undercutting the CIA with questionable intelligence about Saddam Hussein's links to al Qaeda, a Pentagon watchdog agency said in a report on Friday.
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Top U.S. officials were aware some  pre-war evidence cited to make the case against Iraq's Saddam  Hussein was questionable but U.S. intelligence officials  nonetheless deemed the threat of his developing nuclear weapons  credible, top White House aides said on Sunday.
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The Pentagon says the political uproar over the disclosure of a secret military intelligence group is overblown and based on misinformation about the group's makeup and mission.
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The two long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee reports released yesterday shed new light on why U.S. intelligence agencies provided inaccurate prewar information about Saddam Hussein and his weapons programs, including details of how Iraqi exiles who fabricated or exaggerated their stories were...
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Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence...
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A "very damning" report by the Defense Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq
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ASHINGTON, Aug. 19  - A Pentagon investigation has concluded that a senior intelligence officer violated regulations by failing to make it clear that he was not acting in an official capacity when, in speaking at churches, he ...
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Allegations of Israeli spying in the US are false and may be the result of internal conflicts between the Pentagon and the CIA, an Israeli cabinet minister has said, but analysts admit that damage has been done to crucial ties between the two countries.
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WASHINGTON   The Pentagon should retain control of the majority of the country&#39;s intelligence apparatus to ensure soldiers can quickly get the information they need on the battlefield, former defense secretaries say.
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Last week, Congress acted to reorganize the nation&#39;s spy agencies even as the top US arms inspector outlined massive intelligence failures about prewar Iraq.
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Senate Democrats and Republicans disagreed yesterday over the meaning and importance of a Defense Department inspector general's conclusion that a Pentagon policy office produced and gave senior policymakers "alternative intelligence assessments on Iraq and Al Qaida relations" that were "inconsistent" with the intelligence community's consensus view in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq....
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WASHINGTON: Washington was rocked late last week by allegations that a Pentagon policy analyst on Iran, Laurence A. Franklin, had passed classified information to Israel through the American
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Comparing the Administration's war rationale to the facts on the ground
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The CIA is publishing a series of classified reports revising its prewar intelligence assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, an intelligence official said on Tuesday.
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The turf war over control of intelligence spending pits the Pentagon and its Capitol Hill allies against advocates of a new national intelligence director, according to lawmakers and staff aides.
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The Pentagon sent its top intelligence official to Capitol Hill on Monday to explain the mission and makeup of a secret battlefield intelligence group that some lawmakers suggested may have skirted congressional oversight and not been coordinated fully with the CIA.
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A key Republican's proposal to break up the CIA and rearrange the Pentagon's spy agencies under a national intelligence director met immediate and broad resistance Monday. A top Senate Democrat called it a "severe mistake" and the agency's former director said it showed a "dangerous misunderstanding of the business of intelligence."