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Another nail in the coffin of the cover story to invade Iraq.
Paul Pillar, who was the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000-2005, and former Deputy Director of Counter Terrorism, has the following to say in the March/April Issue of the publication Foreign Affairs:
Pillar also alledges that the Bush administration not only cherry picked and exaggerated intelligence, but engaged in a campaign of fear mongering with the Senate, not allowing them to see pertinant information. On top of that, Pillar is also claiming that some of the evidence used by the administration never existed, and was fabricated by the administration.
Does anyone remember Lyndon Johnson and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? Deja Vu.
Article is here.
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Paul Pillar, who was the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000-2005, and former Deputy Director of Counter Terrorism, has the following to say in the March/April Issue of the publication Foreign Affairs:
Which incidentally, is exactly what the Downing Street Memos show. Now bear in mind, this is not what someone in Britain is alledging. This is what our own guy, who was a central figure in the Bush era CIA, is saying.The administration used intelligence not to inform decision-making, but to justify a decision already made.
Pillar also alledges that the Bush administration not only cherry picked and exaggerated intelligence, but engaged in a campaign of fear mongering with the Senate, not allowing them to see pertinant information. On top of that, Pillar is also claiming that some of the evidence used by the administration never existed, and was fabricated by the administration.
Does anyone remember Lyndon Johnson and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution? Deja Vu.
Article is here.
And here.
And here.