Exhibit 1020 ยท Inspector general report
Review of Pre-Iraqi War Activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (Report No. 07-INTEL-04)
While such actions were not illegal or unauthorized, the actions were, in our opinion, inappropriate given that the products did not clearly show the variance with the consensus of the Intelligence Community and were, in some cases, shown as intelligence products.
Requested by Sens. Roberts and Levin. Finds the policy office developed, produced and disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq-al Qaida relationship. The Under Secretary of Defense for Policy did not concur; the IG's evaluation response kept the finding. The Office of Special Plans itself 'had no responsibility for and did not perform any of the activities examined.'
- Source
- U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
- Date
- 9 February 2007
- Quoted from
- Results (as quoted in S. Rept. 110-346, Scope and Methodology, pp. 1-2)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.dodig.mil/Reports/Audits-and-Evaluations/Article/1142221/review-of-pre-iraqi-war-activities-of-the-office-of-the-under-secretary-of-defe/
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- Note
- Quote read in the Senate Intelligence Committee's quotation of the report (OCR of S. Rept. 110-346). The unclassified executive summary transcription on GlobalSecurity.org has a different second half ('given that the intelligence assessments were intelligence products and did not clearly show the variance...'). Check against the DoD OIG PDF before publication.