USA: Bush admin officials pressured intelligence analysts over Iraq - former CIA director

Former CIA director Michael Morell said that certain Bush administration officials were at fault for ignoring intelligence that revealed that Iraq had no links to al-Qaeda or 9/11, while speaking from Washington DC, Wednesday. Speaking during an interview with RT America from its Washington DC studio, Morell said that after an intelligence report stated there were no links between Iraq and al-Qaeda or 9/11 "some administration officials pushed back on us, some administration officials said, we think you need to withdraw that paper and take another look at this." Morell claimed that the pressure to find the intelligence that the administration wanted to find came from the Vice President Dick Cheney's office, adding that "they pressured us, they pressured us in a way that I haven't experienced before as an analyst."