Secret British Memo Shows Bush Tampered with Iraq Intelligence: "But Dearlove's report makes it clear that Bush had already decided absolutely on a war already the previous month, and that he had managed to give British intelligence the firm impression that he intended to shape the intelligence to support such a war. So poor Sperling was lied to twice. Any 'debate' was meaningless if the president had already decided. And he wasn't waiting to make his decision in the light of the intelligence. He was going to tell the intelligence professionals to what conclusion they had to come. 'But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.'"

(Via Informed Comment.)