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Title: CIA Felt Pressure to Alter Iraq Data
Post by: Yann on July 01, 2004, 11:17:26 AM
CIA Felt Pressure to Alter Iraq Data, Author Says

Agency analysts were repeatedly ordered to redo their studies of Al Qaeda ties to Hussein regime, a terrorism expert charges.

by Greg Miller
http://www.commondreams.org
 
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, CIA analysts were ordered repeatedly to redo intelligence assessments concluded that Al Qaeda had no operational ties to Iraq, according to a veteran CIA counter-terrorism official who has written a book that is sharply critical of the decision to go to war with Iraq.

Agency analysts never altered their conclusions, but saw the pressure to revisit their work as a clear indication that Bush administration officials were seeking a different answer regarding Iraq and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the CIA officer said in an interview with The Times. Full Article (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0701-02.htm)



Title: Re: CIA Felt Pressure to Alter Iraq Data
Post by: iyah360 on July 01, 2004, 11:49:10 AM
All this speculation and half-truth about who knew what when and altering data to tie one person to another is akin to doing a very elaborate and complicated dance around the fact of the matter. Michael Moore is only adding to the noise - left wing noise, as opposed to the right wing noise.

Legend has it that when they used to sacrifice children to Baal/Moloch, there was loud singing and banging of cymbals and other noisy devices to drown out the screams of the immolated victims.