10/9/2003

Greg Thielmann, who had recently stepped down as a top official in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, told a PBS Frontline documentary on October 9, 2003, “that the [Bush] administration practiced ‘faith-based intelligence’ by ‘cherry-picking’ his department’s intelligence to suit its case for war [in Iraq].’ ”

 – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 105