The panel also should look into whether intelligence analysts tailored their reports on Iraq to please their political bosses or were under pressure from above to suit the administration's policy needs.
Understanding the specific needs of each family through business intelligence, and tailoring services accordingly, would help improve quality and reduce costs.
Mr. Bush's political aides say that while the issue of potentially tailored intelligence has not gone away, they are more worried about the possible political impact of continuing casualties in occupied Iraq.
Our experience at a national institute shows that implementation of epidemic intelligence should be specifically tailored to effectively monitor the health of a country's population and translate directly into public health action.
However, as it has been explained here, by definition intelligence is simply analysed information and intelligence-led approaches can be tailored for the specific needs and objectives of the agency responsible for its implementation.
The question today is whether that and other assessments were sound or were influenced by a desire to tailor intelligence findings to policy prescriptions.
C.I.A. analysts complained before the war in Iraq that Mr. Tenet and other top officials of the agency did not stand up for them in the face of pressure to tailor intelligence reports to fit the Bush administration's agenda.
Tantalisingly, Lord Hutton declared only that intelligence chiefs might "subconsciously" have tailored their conclusions to fit Mr Blair's interest in a strong case for war.
"It's much more tailored to what intelligence is telling us and what the threat is telling us, as opposed to stopping all individuals from a particular nationality or all individuals using a particular passport," the administration official said Thursday, speaking on the condition of anonymity in advance of the formal announcement.
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