The CIA Just Declassified
the Document That Supposedly Justified the
Iraq Invasion
By Jason Leopold
March 19, 2015 "ICH"
- "Vice"
- Thirteen years ago, the intelligence
community concluded in a 93-page classified
document used to justify the invasion of
Iraq that it lacked "specific information"
on "many key aspects" of Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass
destruction (WMD) programs.
But that's not what top
Bush administration officials said during
their campaign to sell the war to the
American public. Those officials, citing the
same classified document, asserted with no
uncertainty that Iraq was
actively pursuing nuclear
weapons, concealing a vast chemical and
biological weapons arsenal, and posing an
immediate and grave threat to US national
security.
Congress eventually
concluded that the Bush administration
had "overstated" its dire warnings about the
Iraqi threat, and that the administration's
claims about Iraq's WMD program were "not
supported by the underlying intelligence
reporting." But that underlying intelligence
reporting — contained in the so-called
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that
was used to justify the invasion — has
remained shrouded in mystery until now.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41297.htm
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