Flutterby™! : Iraq War "justification"

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion:

A report issued by the RAND Corporation last December titled "Blinders, Blunders and Wars" said the NIE "contained several qualifiers that were dropped…. As the draft NIE went up the intelligence chain of command, the conclusions were treated increasingly definitively."

Observes MeFi user dialetheia:

Wow, I knew In The Loop was pitch-perfect but I didn't realize it was so historically accurate.

The report at Scribd and mirrored here (PDF).

Note too that some of the bogus data that killed over a hundred thousand civilians (and many more active participants) came from torture enhanced interrogation, lest anyone try to convince us that torture is harmless.