Under the frontpage headline “Review Faults Pre-War Plans,” USA Today reports on a CIA analysis completed in July of 2004, a portion of which has just been made public. Reading the article one gets the distinct impression that this latest CIA report is another attempt to put the agency in the best light and the Bush administration in the worst. Another perspective on the state of the CIA may be found here. It’s also apparent that the editors of USA Today decided these other Iraq-related stories, “Deal Sways Some Sunnis to Back Iraqi Charter” and “Al-Qaeda Letter Talks of U.S. Forces Leaving Iraq”(headlines appear in print edition), were of such minor importance that they should be buried on page 13A of the newspaper.
