Selective intelligence from the Bush administration

Okay, so the Bush administration based their case for invading iraq on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that said Saddam was trying to reconstitute his weapons program. They liked that one so much that they leaked/declassified sections so they could appear on the front page of the NYTimes, byline Judy Miller. That NIE turned out to be wrong.

But, the NIE which predicted and established the background for the current Iraqi violence, the one that turned out to be right, it got read not so much.

The Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) which said that Iraq may have contacted Niger about Uranium, read and publicized.

The PDB titled Bin Laden Determined to Attack US, not so much.

Look at this closely and you can see that this administration is making policy completely divorced from any facts. (I know, shocker.) But take a step back and really think about that for a minute.