i think the real issue here is not that the intelligence community distorted evidence, or that the administration pressured them to change their judgments, but that the administration cherry-picked the intelligence, including uncorroborated and discredited reports, to make their case to go to war.
yellowcake? curveball?
powell’s powerpoint?

no, it seems very clear to me that the administration was set on taking down the iraqi government and sought out and used anything they could find to “make a case” to persude others to go along.