Horton says Pentagon ‘Office of Special Plans’ ‘cooked’ intelligence and dug through CIA ‘trash’

Horton alleges the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans “cooked” intelligence by digging through what he characterizes as the CIA’s “trash,” taking embellished or “made-up tall tales,” and using raw or discarded material. He also claims it relied on claims from Iraqi exiles including Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress, and that a “stovepipe” process bypassed the CIA and regular intelligence channels to send material directly to the vice president’s office and the media.