Senior defense intelligence officials this morning acknowledged serious missteps in the postwar planning of Iraq, admitting that Pentagon officials may have ignored crucial information on a brewing insurgency because they were focused heavily on major combat operations. Stephen Cambone, under secretary of defense for intelligence, and Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, testified before the House Armed Services Committee on recent recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission. When asked about "lessons learned" in postwar planning, Jacoby...
