What "New Intelligence"?

Daily Kos: The "New" Iran Intelligence Was Discredited a Year Ago

[UPDATE 11-16-05] Okay, we always have to spell it out lest Republicans turn the five similar words in every sentence spoken--"but", "and", "if", "you" and "them"--to mean an E-N-T-I-R-E-L-Y different idea. In short, spin facts into distortion. Did these guys lie this much as kids??

This one S-P-E-L-L-S it out for everyone, and how:

By conflating the two questions in news reports, the media have advanced the Bush administration's line that several government inquiries have already cleared the administration of both pressuring intelligence agencies and manipulating intelligence. In fact, Media Matters for America has debunked each of these claims, documenting that:

1. The White House had access to intelligence that was unavailable to Congress and began making claims about the Iraqi threat months before Congress received any substantial intelligence analysis; and;

2. while several reports found that analysts felt no "pressure" from senior policy-makers in reaching their intelligence assessments -- a conclusion that has since been challenged by several senior intelligence officials -- no government entity has thus far investigated and reported on whether Bush administration officials manipulated that intelligence once they received it.