John Prados' analysis of new and older documentary and other evidence that the Bush Administration manipulated the case for war with Iraq"The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an ...
"“In August, I think it was … [National Intelligence Director] Mike McConnell came in and said, we have some new information. He didn’t tell me what the information was …” (2007-12-04)x60 President Bush...
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Via the Boston Globe:
FOR 15 YEARS in my various government and parliament duties for the State of Israel, I have been closely tracking Iran's nuclear program. I do so because I consider it a threat to the international community and an existential threat to my...
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"Gov. Richardson released a statement re: the recent intel estimate that says Iran shelved their nuclear weapons program years ago, an assessment which differs greatly from what Bush, Cheney, and various neocons chihuahuas have yapped of late and insist on even now. The key...
"Neocon extraordinaire Norman Podhoretz, who currently works as Rudy Giuliani’s foreign policy advisor, is engaging in some wild speculation today regarding the new National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran’s nuclear capabilities..."
From the Guardian:
George Bush today ruled out a change in Washington's Iran policy following the declassification yesterday of a US intelligence report that concluded Tehran had abandoned its nuclear weapons...
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Compiled by the 16 American intelligence agencies, the crucial
assessment of the war in Iraq has stunned Congress. While it concedes
that the current US troop surge in Baghdad has improved security and
that it...
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"Republic or Empire: A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States [1], Chalmers Johnson [2]
Introduction: The United States remains, for the moment, the most powerful nation in history, but it faces a violent contradiction between its long republican tradition and...
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"Is the Bush administration trying to make a case for war with Iran? It's sure starting to look that way. The run up to war with Iraq and the current noise about Iran share some disturbing similarities."Editor...
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"One of the benefits of the Scooter Libby trial is that it's shining a spotlight onto the Bush administration's politicization of pretty much everything. Absolutely nothing is off-limits, as this Reuters story...
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