02/24/2004: 
Fraud & Conspiracy
Office of Special Plans
from NPR
Senate investigators looking into pre-war intelligence failures are taking a closer look at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. Pentagon officials say the office was a policy-planning group. Critics say it was created to second-guess CIA intelligence on Iraq. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.
According to this report, this Pentagon agency was funnelling reports directly to the office of Dick Cheney, and the intelligence was "unencumbered" by checks and balances, like corroboration or analysis. Requires Real or Windows Media Bastard.
