Foley: CIA's duty is to help facilitate war.

Alan Foley, the head of the CIA's Weapons Intelligence Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Center, led the CIA's investigation into whether or not Saddam had WMD. In a new book, The Italian Letter, examining the buildup to the Iraq war, there is a simply astonishing quote from Foley regarding the role of the CIA and the way it should approach the impending conflict:

One day in December 2002, Foley called his senior production managers to his office. He had a clear message for the men and women who controlled the output of the center's analysts: "If the president wants to go to war, our job is to find the intelligence to allow him to do so." The directive was not quite an order to cook the books, but it was a strong suggestion that cherry-picking and slanting not only would be tolerated, but might even be rewarded.

Now who would have believed that this was the function of the CIA?

Hat tip to A Tiny Revolution.

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