Feith falsified intel

As my dear departed friend Acidman might* have said, "alternate intelligence" my aching ass. I call bullshit on that.

The inspector general’s report found that while the Feith team did not violate any laws or knowingly mislead Congress, it made dubious interpretations of intelligence reports and shared them with senior officials without making clear that its findings had already been discounted or discredited by the main intelligence agencies.

“The actions, in our opinion, were inappropriate, given that all the products did not clearly show the variance with the consensus of the intel community, and in some cases were shown as intel products,” Mr. Gimble told the Armed Services Committee in a hearing on Friday.

Dubious interpretations? Inappropriate? Did not clearly show the variance? How is that not deliberately misleading Congress? This is not rocket science. The man lied and should be prosecuted for it.

And he didn't do it because he woke up one day and said to himself, "Gee, I think I'll go cook up a little intel today and start a war." I'd sure like to know who signed off on that little project. Wouldn't you? Because that "alternate intelligence" has already cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of tax dollars and there's no end in sight. If that's not illegal, it certainly should be.

Update: It appears that Feith is not only a liar, but he's criminally stupid too.

* - Acidman never would have said that about Feith - he was a big Bush supporter. But he did often use the phrase; may he rest in peace.