February 10th, 2007

Pentagon manipulated pre-war intel

Posted by Drew at 9:36 am

A new Department of Defense report shows that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, headed by Douglas Feith, manipulated pre-war intelligence in order to make the case for war. Despite the conclusions of the mainstream intelligence community that Iraq and al Qaeda had nothing to do with each other, Feith’s office nonetheless insisted that September 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague five months before the attack, and that there were “multiple areas of cooperation” between Iraq and al Qaeda, including a mutual desire for WMD. What’s worse, the Bush Administration used this as propaganda to “sell” the Iraq War to the American people. Machiavelli would be proud.

Read the declassified portion of the report here.

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