"The American people were manipulated" about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, says a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Several U.S. intelligence officers who are angry about the politicized distortion of their work and have formed a group called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. "While there have been occasions in the past when intelligence has been deliberately warped for political purposes," they stated in an open letter to President Bush [3], "never before has such warping been used in such a systematic way to mislead our elected representatives into voting to authorize launching a war."