“Larry Johnson, a registered Republican and former CIA official who voted for and contributed to Bush’s 2000 campaign for the presidency and thereafter became the deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Counterterrorism, said that in ‘April of last year [2003], I was beginning to pick up grumblings from friends inside the intelligence community that there had been pressure applied to analysts to come up with certain conclusions. Specifically, I was told that analysts were pressured to find an operational link between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. One analyst in particular told me that they were repeatedly pressured by the most senior officials in the Department of State.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 119