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Thread #58128 Message #918367
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Mar-03 - 06:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: New Yorker article - Forged docs re Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: New Yorker article - Forged docs re Iraq
In today's St. Paul Pioneer Press CIA analysts criticize handling of Iraq reports (Originally from the New York Times, but it's easier for me to find in the PP.) A few quotes:The recent disclosure that reports claiming Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger were based partly on forged documents has renewed complaints among CIA analysts.… Some analysts at the agency said they had felt pressured to make their intelligence reports on Iraq conform to Bush administration policies [and] to emphasize links between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaida….
CIA officials say they communicated their doubts to the administration about the evidence [of an Iraq-Niger uranium deal], but the charges still found their way into Bush's State of the Union address, a State Department "fact sheet" and public remarks by numerous senior officials.