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"Hijacked" is such a dumb term for this. Every department in the administration was headbutting to get the ear and confidence of the President. Had it been Powell and Armitage that beat Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Feith few would be using that term to describe it.
Of course I am borrowing the term for Wilkerson (if I remember right). That said, I think it's a fair description. Basically the intelligence was formed to fit the conclusion as stated by the Dowling Street memo. Dissent was crushed as in Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plane. So yeah, hijack is appropriate.