It’s easy to forget, but in November 2003, after the Weekly Standard published a leaked summary of the Office of Special Plans’s analysis of the Iraq-al-Qaeda question, the Pentagon immediately released an official statement distancing itself from the OSP’s controversial findings. The central contention of the statement tracks with the positions taken in Douglas Feith and Eric Edelman’s rebuttals — that whatever OSP did, it wasn’t intelligence analysis.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=181514