WP: Hill Probers Fault [CIA] Iraq Intelligence

An unbelievable story in the WaPo on how Kay and the House and Senate intelligence committees are ready to pin the entire blame on the CIA.  It is a desperate last move.  

Like Kay, the committees have found that CIA operatives and analysts failed to detect that the Iraqi chain of command for developing chemical, biological and nuclear weapons had fallen apart, and that Iraqi scientists and others were engaged in their own campaign to deceive the Iraqi leader, telling him they had weapons that did not exist.

They're saying the CIA failed to detect the breakdown in Iraq that made WMD impossible.

See what a desperate position that is for the Administration? It cuts off any possibility of claiming Saddam was a real threat going forward, doesn't it? If he had nothing, no programs, no nothing, how could he ever be a threat?

AND, there is no mention whatsoever in this article of the Office of Special Plans!  The Administration's own cottage intelligence industry, that obligingly supported whatever position the Administration wished to take, is not mentioned by the WaPo!  

Apparently, it's entirely the CIA's fault for not trying hard enough to refute the evil influence of the OSP.  Does that sound familiar?  It should, it's the same dodge Bush tried to take in the Niger Connection.  Remember -- Tennet was made to say he did not try hard enough to keep the "yellowcake" story out of the 2003 SOTU.  Now there's talk of firing Tennet.

Something's gotta give sometime.