>
> QUESTION 1) The British inform us that they have learned that Iraq has
> recently tried to acquire significant quantities of intelligence in Africa.
>
> The Bush Administration naturally tries to verify this claim, but cannot
> do so. They tell the British that we can't verify their claim. The
> British respond that they cannot reveal their intelligence sources on this,
> but they assure us that the intelligence is of the highest quality.
>
> At this point, do you;
> a) Call the British liars since our intelligece services have such strong
> reservations about it?
> b) Call the British incompetent for giving us intelligence that our own
> intelligence services has not verified, and indeed has strong doubts about?
> c) Ignore the British intelligence as questionable?
> d) Accept that the British intelligence services may have access to sources
> our own do not, particularly in Africa, and that the British intelligence
> services are generally considered among the best and most reliable in the
> world, and BELIEVE the British intelligence report?
>
> Your choice. What do you do?
>
> I look forward to your, Nick's, and Ritu's answers to this question.
>
> YOU LEAVE OUT OF THE STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE. YOU DO NOT USE IT TO TRY TO
> CONVINCE AMERICANS THAT WE MUST GO TO WAR UNTIL YOU CAN AT LEAST CONVINCE YOUR OWN
> INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY THAT THE STATEMENT IS TRUE
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