This is in stark contradiction to public statements made by the Bush administration who blamed much of the insurgency on "  loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power " or " foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos " and insisted as late as Ma  2005 that the insurgency is "  in the last throes  "   . "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios,"
<meaning-changed> This is in stark contradiction to public statements made by the Bush administration who blamed much of the insurgency on "  loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power " or " foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos " and insisted as late as Ma  2005 that the insurgency is "  in the last throes  "   . "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios,"
This is in stark contradiction to public statements made by the Bush administration who blamed much of the insurgency on " loyalists of the Saddam regime who seek to regain power " or " foreigners who have traveled to Iraq to spread fear and chaos " and insisted as late as Ma 2005 that the insurgency is " in the last throes " Accoding to Robert Hutchings, the chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 2003 to 2005, and now diplomat in residence at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, there was a "steady stream" of intelligence reports warning Bush and his administration that the insurgency was intensifying and expanding, including a major study, called a National Intelligence Estimate, which was completed in October 2003. . "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios,"