Intelligence made to order.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

Suspicions that most of us have had about the CIA under George W. Bush are confirmed by a recent study by the Brookings Institution. It finds that analysts at the CIA were rewarded for having their reports included in the President's Daily Brief and that their findings were more likely to make it into the brief if they were perceived to be of the sort that attracted presidential interest, meaning in Bush's case items like "evidence" that Iraq had WMDs. One carefully worded Brookings conclusion, as reported by Walter...