Sunday, November 20, 2005

More Evidence of Mishandling of Intelligence by Bush administration


CLICK TO READ: How U.S. Fell Under the Spell of 'Curveball' - Los Angeles Times

It's getting tough to keep up with all of the information, coming out daily, on the possible mis-use of intelligence by an administration trying to sell an unnecessary war. Now, from five senior officials of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service comes this: The Bush administration and the CIA repeatedly exaggerated the claims of an Iraqi defector code-named Curveball. Read more.

PHOTO: President Bush used information from Curveball to charge in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq had "mobile biological weapons labs" designed to produce "germ warfare agents." He was wrong. (Ron Edmonds/AP)

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