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Thursday, July 10, 2003

And the walls come tumbling down . . .

A former US intelligence official who served under the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of lying about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
The claims came as the Bush administration was fighting to shore up its credibility among a series of anonymous government leaks over its distortion of US intelligence to manufacture a case against Saddam.

This was the first time an administration official has put his name to specific claims. The whistleblower, Gregory Thielmann, served as a director in the state department's bureau of intelligence until his retirement in September, and had access to the classified reports which formed the basis for the US case against Saddam, spelled out by President Bush and his aides.

Mr Thielmannn said yesterday: "I believe the Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture to the American people of the military threat posed by Iraq."

There's been a lot of these kind of reports going around. Some turned out not to be true, but they all seem to make a certain amount of sense - that the information the American public received about Iraq was not terribly accurate. And that inaccuracy may not be a result of poor intelligence, but rather selective use of that intelligence in the White House.

posted by chris at 3:12 PM
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