>>Jim,
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>>>...it has been testified that Vice-president Cheney was hanging around FBI/CIA lower-levels and essentially telling them what they needed to "find".
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>>I'd like to read about that. Do you have a URL or other reference for it?
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>This isn't testimony, nor does it specifically involve Cheney, the FBI, or CIA, but it is something similar:
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>http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2004/01/pollack.htm
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>As Seymour Hersh, among others, has reported, Bush Administration officials also took some actions that arguably crossed the line between rigorous oversight of the intelligence community and an attempt to manipulate intelligence. They set up their own shop in the Pentagon, called the Office of Special Plans, in order to sift through the information on Iraq themselves. To a great extent OSP personnel "cherry-picked" the intelligence they passed on, selecting reports that supported the Administration's pre-existing position and ignoring all the rest.

I wonder if the members of the Office of Special Plans had instructions on what their mission was or if they just acted on their own?