Lawrence Korb, whose previous positions include Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, cites the history of Plan B operations which generate false intelligence to bolster hawkish policy directives. Some familiar names, including Paul Wolfowitz, are listed as members of these "committees for makin' shit up".
The reports of the 9/11 Commission and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence miss the real problem facing the intelligence community. The real problem is not organization or culture, but the Team B concept which began in 1976, and the real villains are those hardliners who refuse to accept the unbiased and balanced judgments of intelligence professionals about the threats facing the country.
And ya gotta love the logic behind this assessment ...
Team B also claimed that the Soviets were working on an anti-acoustic submarine, though they failed to find any evidence of one. The hawks explained away this lack of evidence by stating that "the submarine may have already been deployed because it appeared to have evaded detection."
Saddam has invisible WMDs! What, you can't see them? See, told ya!