Senate findings attack pre-war intelligence

Today the Senate Intelligence Committe released it's findings on the validity of the CIA's intelligence information before the war in Iraq and the resulting report is not a pretty one. The committee accused the CIA of "group think" that lead to overstated or outright false analysis of the threat Saddam's Iraq posed. In a striking passage, the report lays bare their thoughts:

"This 'group think' dynamic led Intelligence Community analysts, collectors and managers to both interpret ambiguous evidence as conclusively indicative of a WMD program as well as ignore or minimize evidence that Iraq did not have active and expanding weapons of mass destruction programs."

The full text (in PDF format) of the conclusions section of the committee's report can be found here.