Ruh-roh, Shaggy. Looks like the IG has received that phone call. I can smell the OSP ballsweat stench from here:

A long awaited Pentagon Inspector General’s report into the Office of Special Plans and its activities surrounding pre-war intelligence in the lead up to the Iraq war has been completed, RAW STORY has learned.

According to sources close to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the classified version of the Pentagon IG’s report will be released to committee members Friday. Two to three declassified pages may also be concurrently released to the public.

A Senate aide on the committee, while not commenting on particular questions regarding the IG’s report, confirmed that a major focal point involves former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense Policy, Douglas Feith – a keystone of the Administration’s intelligence on Iraq and Director of the notoriously secretive Pentagon Office of Special Plans from September 2002 to June 2003.  Read more 

Just days after the Iraq Study Group issued their downbeat assessment of the war on Iraq, Iraqi insurgents announced that they have formed their own study group and have released their own report, one that offers a much rosier picture of the Iraqi conflict.

The Insurgents Study Group, a collection of ten elder insurgents charged with the duty of assessing the war from the insurgents’ point of view, today issued a 147-page report which became an instant bestseller among insurgent readers across Iraq.

“The war in Iraq is going great and is improving every day,” the Insurgents Study Group’s report begins.

In contrast to the Iraq Study Group’s report, which advocates that the United States and its allies change their strategy in Iraq, the Insurgents Study Group recommends “not changing a thing.”

“As insurgents, our strategy could be summarized in three words,” the report concludes. “Stay the course.”  Read more 

Need more proof that the ISG is nothing more than Kabuki? Check out this snippet from USSnooze’s Gloria Borger:

t was a group journey that surprised even the members themselves. Bipartisan panels often come up with mush; this was a report girded in steel. It was the result, members say, of some eye-opening moments—including an interview with the president and his national security team. At one point, Vernon Jordan, a skilled Washington insider, put it pretty bluntly to the president, according to a panel member’s paraphrase:

Jordan: What do you mean by victory? When my mama told me to clean the garage, I cleaned the garage because I knew what she meant. But I don’t understand what you mean.

Bush: You have to speak to the American people with a simple message here. They understand what victory is, and if you come off of it, they’ll think you’re giving up.

Some members say they were stunned by the response. And when they left, they were puzzled by one more thing: During their entire session, Vice President Dick Cheney—a key architect of the war in Iraq—never said a word. Not one.  Read more 

Snappy Reader General Zod remarks:

Frankly, I didn’t care when they announced they were going to do it, and I hardly care more now that they have: the ISG is little more than a bunch of Old Time Hacks getting together and blowing hot air. It means nothing (esp. to Chimpy) and will accomplish nothing. However, there is still plenty of good reading sober minded folks should check out if they want to assess the war’s progress.  Read more 

Rozen quotes a CSIS writer who lays out why the ISG is little more than a bad joke. She also has some scary shit about the “Salvadorization” of Iraq, and the new/old death squads we seem to be empowering, training, funding, and staffing.
Main&Central has a nice piece up by an Army Intelligence officer back after a year. Here’s what an Iraqi said to him: