Pentagon report confirms Iraq/al Qaeda intel was manipulated
Amid the hours of Anna Nicole Smith coverage, CNN managed to provide 30 seconds or so on the report which identifies Douglas Feith, a neocon who served as Undersecretary of Defense, was one of the key contributors to the administration’s rationale for war.
Thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s have been killed because of this manipulation. And we get breaking news that there was cold medication found in Anna Nicole Smith’s room. The US has a serious media problem.
The investigation found that former Pentagon policy chief Douglas Feith did not act illegally but it says about the group “developed, produced and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the of the intelligence community.” .
The Washington Post quoted the report’s bottom line
The bottom line is that intelligence relating to the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship was manipulated by high-ranking officials in the Department of Defense to support the administration’s decision to invade Iraq,” Levin said yesterday. “The inspector general’s report is a devastating condemnation of inappropriate activities in the DOD policy office that helped take this nation to war.
