It's Just The Beginning

Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence? Tomorrow, in its print edition, The New York Times starts to answer the question, with reporter Douglas Jehl disc
By John Amato — November 4, 2005

Manipulation of Iraq Intelligence?

Tomorrow, in its print edition, The New York Times starts to answer the question, with reporter Douglas Jehl disclosing the contents of a newly declassified memo apparently passed to him by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

It shows that an al-Qaeda official held by the Americans was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the basis for its claims that Iraq trained al-Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to this Defense Intelligence Agency document from February 2002....read on

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