Positive Reinforcement
May 29th, 2005 at 6:32 am by Susie
Via Josh Marshall, the WashPo article reporting that the intelligence analysts who were responsible for the aluminum tubes fiasco got bonuses for their efforts:
That each of these men could have been given such high commendations over the period of time in which their errors and poor performance became apparent makes it hard not to think that they were actually being intentionally rewarded for their flawed assessments. At a minimum, it demonstrates a complete indifference to any sort of accountability for a national embarrassment and scandal the magnitude of which the country has not even begun to come to grips with.
Almost across the board in this administration, the people responsible for this trail of error and/or untruth have been rewarded while those who resisted it or went along unwillingly have been marginalized, punished or fired.
It’s truly a national scandal — the surface of which has barely been scratched because the institutions with oversight responsibility have vested interest in not revealing what happened.
It’s a national scandal for which, as time goes by, we all collectively become more and more responsible.
No error was made. A lie is not an error. There were no “intelligence failures.”