chastising cheney

The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity have written an open letter to President Bush about the faulty/forged intelligence used to convince Congress to allow the invasion of Iraq. In particular, they make strong accusations against Vice President Cheney and call for his ouster. Interesting.

Read the open letter at salon.com.

So who are the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity? They are cited as "a coast-to-coast enterprise; mostly intelligence officers from analysis side of CIA". I'm unable to find a web page for them, although they have written open letters to the President in the past. See the February 2003 memorandum written right after Powell's presentation to the UN, in which they agree that Iraq clearly violated UN resolution 1441, but claim that the probability of Iraq conducting an attack on the U.S. or selling weapons to terrorists is quite low. They seem to be all over progressive websites (Mother Jones, etc) today. And I'm sure Bush will be writing back to them promptly.