When the whole manipulated intelligence story started to blow up this summer, Feith coyly told a gaggle of reporters at the Pentagon that his group had come up “some interesting observations about the linkages between Iraq and al Qaeda.”

But the real analysts didn’t share his enthusiasm.

In August 2002, on instructions from Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the folks from Feith’s shop went out to Langley to brief the CIA on what they’d come up with. And the professional analysts at CIA (and subsequently those in other branches of the intelligence community) didn’t think their work passed the laugh-test.

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In other words, the committee asked Feith to back up his outlandish claims about connections between Saddam and al Qaeda and he forwarded them a copy of his shop’s dossier — pretty much the same one the professional analysts in the intelligence community decided more than a year ago was barely worth the paper it was written on.

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What we have here are some allegations that the analysts who had access to all the information either didn’t find credible or didn’t find meaningful. The leak of this dossier now is just an effort by the usual suspects at the Pentagon to push the already-discredited al Qaeda link because so much else that they’ve been involved with has gone so badly.

The Hill article by Josh Marshall The dubious link between Iraq and al Qaeda

So there you have it. In August of 2002, Professional analysts in the intelligence community found the touted memo to be essentially worthless, yet this discredited garbage bobs to the surface yet again 15 months later.

So no, I haven't read the worthless memo. I try to restrict my reading to that which is credible. I suggest you give such a restriction a try.

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