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Ron Suskind: The Forged Iraqi Letter: What Just Happened?

A Smoking Gun that could finally crumble the house of cards.

Iran: Certainty Declines in U.S. Intelligence Reports

Throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s, the U.S. government regularly stated in a variety of forums that Iran possessed a large undeclared stockpile of chemical weapons (CW) and a substantial production capability. . .

'Chlorine bomb' hits Iraq village

Now there are WMD in Iraq. We have achieved the opposite of success: Twenty people are killed and 50 injured in a suspected chlorine bombing in Iraq's Diyala province, police say.

Ex-CIA director Tenet admits lies told on war

With the publication of his new memoir, At the Center of the Storm, released Monday, and in an appearance on the CBS television new program 60 Minutes the night before, former CIA director George Tenet has become the latest former official to admit publicly that the Bush administration launched its war against Iraq based upon false pretenses and manipulated intelligence.

"MC Rove" Raps At DC Dinner

Is it appropriate for the White House to joke around like this during a time of war? Reminds me of the When Bush Joked About Missing WMD at Journo Dinner in 2004. I think Rove seems pathologically detached from the consequences of his work.

Rice stands by claims of Al-Qaeda-Saddam links

Wow - is it unfair to say she's a lapdog? "There were ties between Iraq and Al-Qaeda," she said on Fox News Sunday. Rice specifically linked Al-Qaeda's presumed leader in Iraq at the time, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, to the effort to develop chemical arms. "We know that Zarqawi was running a poison network in Iraq," she said, reaffirming statements made by President George W. Bush and herself prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq linking Baghdad with Osama bin Laden's group. Rice stood by the claim Sunday despite a February 2002 report from the Defense Department's intelligence arm which was just released by a Senate Committee and stated that Iraq was "unlikely to have provided Bin Laden any useful (chemical or biological) knowledge or assistance."

Half of U.S. Still Believes Iraq Had WMD

Democracy depends on an informed electorate. We've got problems...

Scheer: An Intel Story Finally Told

I joined other journalists in denying the public the right to learn of a definitive investigative report by CBS' "60 Minutes" on President Bush's disregard for the truth concerning the WMD threat allegedly posed to the United States by Iraq. I honored CBS' proprietary request not to write about the news it carried until after it aired. Only, it never aired.

Tyler Drumheller's story

What [Tyler Drumheller, the now-retired CIA officer who was head of covert operations in Europe during the lead up to the Iraq War] has to say adds quite a lot to our knowledge of what happened in the lead up to war. But what it shows even more clearly is that none of this stuff has yet been investigated by anyone whose principal goal is not covering for the White House.

The Left Coaster: WMDgate: Fixing Intelligence Around Policy - The Aluminum Tubes, Part 2B-1

This post is part of a series (see Introduction, Part 1, Part 2A-1, Part 2A-2, Part 2A-3, Part 2A-4, Part 2A-5) focused on building a case to demonstrate the Bush White House's intelligence manipulation, fixing and misrepresentation, mostly using published Congressional reports like the Phase I Senate (SSCI) Report, the Robb-Silberman WMD Commission Report, etc.