{"id":28522,"date":"2017-12-03T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28522"},"modified":"2017-12-03T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T15:14:26","slug":"cherry-picking-toward-war-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=28522","title":{"rendered":"Cherry-picking Toward War with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/12\/02\/cherry-picking-toward-war-with-iran\/\">Cherry-picking Toward War with Iran<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In trying to rally American hostility toward Iran, CIA Director Pompeo and other U.S. officials are engaging in the same kind of distorted intelligence that led to the catastrophic Iraq invasion, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Although nobody knows exactly where Donald Trump intends to go with his campaign of seeking confrontation with Iran, his administration already has provided disconcerting parallels with the techniques an earlier U.S. administration used in selling its launching of a war against Iraq.\u00a0Among these techniques is the cherry-picking of intelligence not to inform policy-making or to enlighten the public but instead to inculcate false perceptions among the public and thereby to muster support for a policy already chosen.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22385\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6874339793_135115c192_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22385\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6874339793_135115c192_b-300x200.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6874339793_135115c192_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6874339793_135115c192_b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6874339793_135115c192_b-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/6874339793_135115c192_b.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaking at the 2012 CPAC in Washington, D.C. February 2012. (Flickr Gage Skidmore)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The parallels have become remarkably close as the Trump administration has tried to get people to believe there is some sort of cooperation and common purpose between Iran and Al Qaeda.\u00a0The President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2017\/10\/13\/remarks-president-trump-iran-strategy\">made this insinuation<\/a> in his speech on Iran in October.\u00a0Then his CIA director, Mike Pompeo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2017\/11\/iran-mike-pompeo-bin-laden-documents-cia\/545093\/\">ordered a tendentious re-exploitation<\/a> of already exploited documents captured in the raid at Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Osama bin\u00a0 Laden.<\/p>\n<p>This time the purpose was to find any possible connection between bin Laden\u2019s group and Iran.\u00a0Pompeo took the highly unusual step of giving an advance look at the selected documents to an advocacy organization: the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a leader of efforts to kill the agreement that limits Iran\u2019s nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherry-picking Toward War with Iran\u00a0 In trying to rally American hostility toward Iran, CIA Director Pompeo and other U.S. officials are engaging in the same kind of distorted intelligence that led to the catastrophic Iraq invasion, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. 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