CBS Evening News - 2007-02-09
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[0:01] I'm Katie Couric, did the Pentagon make
[0:03] an end run around the CIA to justify the
[0:06] invasion of Iraq?
[0:08] The Pentagon's own report charges the US
[0:10] went to war based on bad information.
[0:14] Someone is putting pipe bombs in the
[0:15] mail. Can the FBI find him before one of
[0:18] them explodes?
[0:20] Presidential politics and race, a 60
[0:22] Minutes exclusive with Barack Obama.
[0:25] You think the country's ready for a
[0:26] black president? Yes.
[0:28] And what killed Anna Nicole Smith? The
[0:31] latest on the mystery and the legal
[0:33] tug-of-war that involves at least three
[0:35] men and a baby.
[0:42] This is the CBS Evening News with Katie
[0:45] Couric.
[0:47] Hi everyone. We begin tonight with a new
[0:49] report on the faulty intelligence that
[0:51] led to the Iraq war nearly 4 years ago.
[0:54] It concludes the Pentagon was way off
[0:56] base when it reported Saddam Hussein was
[0:59] conspiring with al-Qaeda. But what's
[1:02] remarkable is where the report came
[1:04] from, the Pentagon itself. From
[1:06] Washington, here's David Martin.
[1:10] Convinced the CIA was doing shoddy work
[1:13] in the months before the war, a small
[1:15] Pentagon office presented senior White
[1:17] House aides with its own much stronger
[1:19] conclusion about the links between
[1:21] Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda.
[1:24] Today, the Pentagon's own Inspector
[1:26] General told Congress that was
[1:27] inappropriate. Of course, it's years too
[1:30] late to do much about it. Unfortunately,
[1:32] the damage has already been done.
[1:34] Senior administration officials used the
[1:37] twisted intelligence produced by the
[1:39] Feith office in making the case for the
[1:41] Iraq war. That's Feith as in Doug Feith,
[1:45] then the Pentagon's