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"News You Already Knew," Iraq Edition
Highlighting this story on MoJoBlog is a formality at this point, because every reader we have must be familiar with the lies and misrepresentations the Bush Administration fed us in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
But there's a new report out from the Pentagon's inspector general that details exactly what role Douglas Feith and his office had in this dirty business.
Intelligence provided by former undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith to buttress the White House case for invading Iraq included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability" that supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, according to a report by the Pentagon's inspector general.
I know, I know, it's old hat. I'm just doing my job...
Posted by Jonathan Stein on 02/09/07 at 7:58 AM | E-mail | Print | Digg | de.licio.us | Reddit | Newsvine | Yahoo! MyWeb | StumbleUpon | Netscape | Google |
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And Jonathan is worried about harping on an "old" story? Try this: Mother Jones' January 04 report specifically on Feith and the Office of Special Plans or, as the editors called it, "The Lie Factory." http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html
Posted by: Jay Harris on 02/09/07 at 12:25 PM