Double Standards, Lies and Deception
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2004

Iraq Intelligence Failure
The recent reports of the creation of a new security service in Iraq suggest an advance in the intelligence war there, but evidence suggests the opposite may well be true. First, the idea of a new agency is not new, as the United States authorities and CIA have been recruiting former Iraqi intelligence officers since last summer.

Don't Throw Me in That Briar Patch

Blame the masters, not the servants

"Your country (USA) made this mess,
your country needs to clean it up"

Bush's inquiry into Iraq intelligence must include Cheney, Pentagon
Iraq commission's scope shrouded in uncertainty
Losing the plot
No Iraq intel probe needed - sources have already spoken
Bush can make, break intelligence panel

Review acknowledges that WMD claims were wrong

The CIA Ate My Homework
In the year and half before the war began in March, Cheney and the neocons constantly disparaged the CIA for underestimating the threat posed by Iraq. In public and in private, they lambasted the agency for overcautiousness. Behind the scenes, they pressured analysts—not to mention George Tenet, the CIA director, whose spine seems made of soft clay—to find more, more, more evidence of Iraq’s WMD and of Iraq’s (nonexistent) connections to Al Qaeda.

Iraq WMD: Intelligence Failure?
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said Monday in an interview with The Post that he does not know whether he would have recommended an invasion of Iraq if he had been told it had no stockpiles of banned weapons, even as he offered a broad defense of the Bush administration's decision to go to war.

Colin Powell Defends Decision on Iraq War
Powell Says Doubts May Have Changed Decision on War



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