http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071102710.html
Why are these views so starkly at odds with what the Bush administration has said since the beginning of the "Global War on Terror"? This administration has heard what it has wished to hear, pressured the intelligence community to verify preconceptions, undermined or sidetracked opposing voices, and both instituted and been victim of procedures that guaranteed that the slightest terrorist threat reporting would receive disproportionate weight -- thereby comforting the administration's preconceptions and policy inclinations.
We must not delude ourselves about the nature of the terrorist threat to our country. We must not take fright at the specter our leaders have exaggerated. In fact, we must see jihadists for the small, lethal, disjointed and miserable opponents that they are.
This is the second senior analyst, considered the expert in this subject matter, to come forward upon retirement and spill the beans. When you add in Imperial Hubris, written by CIA analyst Michael Scheuer under the pseudonym Anonymous, it exposes a very dirty little secret about the Global War on Terror; it is a disinformation campaign used domestically to curb our personal freedoms and allow the pillage of our treasuries.
Let the free-for-all begin!