U.S. Suspects It Received False Iraq Arms Tips

[QuietStorm]

(2003-08-28) WASHINGTON--Frustrated at the failure to find Saddam Hussein's suspected stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have launched a major effort to determine if they were victims of bogus Iraqi defectors who planted disinformation to mislead the West before the war.

The goal, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, "is to see if false information was put out there and got into legitimate channels and we were totally duped on it." He added, "We're reinterviewing all our sources of information on this. This is the entire intelligence community, not just the U.S."

The far-reaching review was started after a political firestorm erupted this summer over revelations that President Bush's claim in his State of the Union speech that Iraq had sought to import uranium from Niger was based on forged documents.

Although senior CIA officials insist that defectors were only partly responsible for the intelligence that triggered the decision to invade Iraq in March, other intelligence officials now fear that key portions of the prewar information may have been flawed. The issue raises fresh doubts as to whether illicit weapons will be found in Iraq.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wxxi/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=539221

Looks like a respin on the Niger forgeries.

(I looked to see if this was in LBN. I couldn't seem to find it. If it is there well then perhaps this is a dupe, but I wasn't sure so I thought I would post it and see.)

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault..

never the Bushies'.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Liars.

Go review the PNAC website if you want to understand why you decided to have this war.

[Richardo]

3. How does this square with *'s confident claim of "darn good" intellgence?

Oh. It doesn't.

[QuietStorm]

4. It appears *nothing* has to "square" any longer

it is whatever lie they happen to need to tell us over and over until it sounds true and FUCK all the internal investigations that have been initiated to date (including that investigation into the forged documents) because all have proven themselves to be useless. None have yet gotten to any truth, only revealing errors, but never who made them or why? All just a waste of tax dollar.

[HawkerHurricane]

5. Gee, could it be the defectors

TOLD THIER DEBRIEFERS WHAT THEY WANTED TO HEAR!!!