How did the U.S. government lead its people to war?
Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence
In its eagerness to justify and build public support for war in Iraq, the Bush administration set out to collect and make public all the incriminating evidence it could gather, no matter how flimsy or unsubstantiated.
The administration made claims that were often unreliable and flawed by manipulations, fabrications and exaggerations. Key allegations such as aluminum tubes for nuclear centrifuges, yellowcake uranium from Niger, mobile weapons labs, Mohamed Atta’s meeting Iraqi intelligence in Prague, and numerous other allegations have been chronicled as notorious falsehoods, even fabrications. Time and again, significant details were presented as factual and well-sourced, only to be fully discredited later.
Notes from joint U.S./U.K. strategy meetings, known as the Downing Street memo, revealed that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” – a policy for war which had already been decided upon. ...cont/-
How did the U.S. government lead its people to war?
ReplyDeleteAbuses and Misuses of Intelligence
In its eagerness to justify and build public support for war in Iraq, the Bush administration set out to collect and make public all the incriminating evidence it could gather, no matter how flimsy or unsubstantiated.
The administration made claims that were often unreliable and flawed by manipulations, fabrications and exaggerations. Key allegations such as aluminum tubes for nuclear centrifuges, yellowcake uranium from Niger, mobile weapons labs, Mohamed Atta’s meeting Iraqi intelligence in Prague, and numerous other allegations have been chronicled as notorious falsehoods, even fabrications. Time and again, significant details were presented as factual and well-sourced, only to be fully discredited later.
Notes from joint U.S./U.K. strategy meetings, known as the Downing Street memo, revealed that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” – a policy for war which had already been decided upon.
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