Clarke on Intel "Failures"

Richard Clarke, the former White House anti-terrorism advisor to Clinton, and Bush for a period of time until pushed out – is on a speaking tour promoting his book. Caught just now on CPAC:

Pre war intelligence was handled in a very un professional way, analytically. Basic procedures we should follow, were not. We didn’t follow process by: a) saying clearly what we know, how we know it and when we learned it, and then b) saying what we don’t know. That basic process of analysis was not performed.

There are inescapable conclusions to be made.

Its hard to escape the conclusion that several intelligence agencies “stood by”, silently, or approvingly, while leaders said things they knew not to be true while exaggerations and distortions were made.

And its hard to avoid the conclusion that for all of its expertise most intel agencies failed to warn adequately that the occupation of Iraq would be a mistake, would be disastrous in fact.

When will Bush and Cheney be censured by Congress and impeached? Perhaps even tried for war crimes? They should both be locked up.