ZhiZhu on Nostr: "We can best highlight the importance of a functioning check upon US #intelligence ...

"We can best highlight the importance of a functioning check upon US #intelligence officials by examining what happens when there isn’t one. In the lead up to the Iraq #War... VP Cheney leaned hard on #US intelligence to declare that there were weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in #Iraq... The Director of the #CIA at the time... went along with the bogus claim...

Had the #House Intelligence Committee performed adequate oversight... we might never have gone into Iraq."

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/lack-of-intelligence