Intelligence Quote by Senator John Kerry

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could…

— Ray McGovern

Bush and Cheney were not misled by flawed intelligence; they used the flawed intelligence to mislead.

— David Corn

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel…

— Ken Lucas

President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now…

— Jay Leno

“The people of the United States are entitled to assume that their President is telling the truth. The pattern of misrepresentation and half-truths that…

— Carl Bernstein

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

— Bill Vaughan

Clearly, the American war planners misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.

— Peter Arnett

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than…

— Andrew Greeley

The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to…

— Edward Snowden

Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain.

— Carl von Clausewitz

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

— Carl Levin

Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

— Valerie Plame