Former Sr.U.S. State Department official - Doubts about Prewar Intel
Writing by on Tuesday, 29 of November , 2005 at 10:33 am
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This guy here is was the chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, he is not some nobody, he is one of them, and he is starting to think that Bush just made the shit up.
From the AP via SeattlePi.com
A former senior U.S. State Department official says he has come to doubt whether President Bush’s administration presented an honest intelligence case for the war in Iraq.
“You begin to speculate, you begin to wonder - Was this intelligence spun? Was it politicized? Was it cherry-picked? Did in fact the American people get fooled? I’m beginning to have my concerns,” Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said in an interview broadcast Tuesday.
In the interview with the British Broadcasting Corp., Wilkerson repeated his criticisms of Vice President Dick Cheney, holding him responsible for abuses of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq and for shortcomings in post-war planning in Iraq.
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Wilkerson said he had believed that intelligence supported the view that Iraq had or was seeking to build weapons of mass destruction, and when none were found he accepted the argument that the administration had simply been fooled.
Lately, however, he said he had been troubled by disclosures that an informant known as Curveball, who supplied information about alleged mobile biological laboratories, was not reliable, and new information casting doubt on statements made by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, an al-Qaida military instructor, claiming support from Iraq.
Even some of the Neo-cons can see that this administration is full of it.
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