NYT Article on Bush Admin "Selective Intelligence"

[PeachMonkey]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/international/middleeast/03tube.html

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Basically, a detailed investigative article about battles between intelligence agency on so-called "centrifuge tubes", and how the Bush Administration picked sides and continued to tout the "evidence" even after it was disproven by, among others, direct research by the IAEA.

 

[michaeledward]

. . . and National Security Advisor Rice is still claiming the debate is ongoing concerning these tubes. As if she has not been made aware of the facts.

Keep the waters muddy.

 

[michaeledward]

This is a timely counter part ... .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6180176/

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday that he knew of no “strong, hard evidence” linking Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and al-Qaida, despite describing extensive contacts between the two before the invasion of Iraq.
During a question-and-answer session before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Rumsfeld was asked to explain the connection between Saddam and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, which is blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.
“I have seen the answer to that question migrate in the intelligence community over a period of a year in the most amazing way. Second, there are differences in the intelligence community as to what the relationship was,” Rumsfeld said. “To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.

Don't you just hate that everything you say gets recorded somewhere?

Topic: Iraq - Al Qaeda Links
Speaker: Rumsfeld, Donald - Secretary of Defense
Quote/Claim:
"[T]here is no question but that there have been interactions between the Iraqi government, Iraqi officials, and al-Qaeda operatives. They have occurred over a span of some eight or ten years to our knowledge. There are currently al-Qaeda in Iraq." [Source: CBS]

"It is the nexus between an Al-Qaeda type network and other terrorist network and a terrorist state like Saddam Hussein who has that weapons of mass destruction. As we sit here, there are senior Al-Qaeda in Iraq. They are there." [Source: PBS]
Fact:
CIA interrogators have already elicited from the top Qaeda officials in custody that, before the American-led invasion, Osama bin Laden had rejected entreaties from some of his lieutenants to work jointly with Saddam. - NY Times, 1/15/04