CIA Study on Iraq Weapons Is Off Course, Officials Say

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040820/ts_latimes/ciastudyoniraqweaponsisoffcourseofficialssay&cid=2026&ncid=1480


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The CIA plans for the report, due next month, to project as far as 2008 what Iraq might have achieved in its illegal weapons programs if the United States had not invaded the country last year, the officials said.


The new direction of the inquiry is seen by some officials as an attempt to obscure the fact that no banned weapons — or even evidence of active programs — have been found, and instead emphasize theories that Iraq may have been planning to revive its programs.


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For that reason, some officials familiar with the CIA's plans for the final report said they thought it was politically motivated and designed to focus the public's attention on hypothetical future threats.


"The case made by the Bush White House was that was an imminent threat that must be dealt with today," said a senior congressional official who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Coming out later and saying would have had the weapons in 2006 or 2008 … is basically a way to justify preemption."


....I smell DESPERATION in the air.....

[acmavm]

1. What a bunch of pathetic failures. 'If' he had developed weapons of mass

destruction? Who they got working for them now, Miss Cleo?

[drhilarius]

2. Let invade micronesia....

they may have WMD by 2132 AD.

[donco6]

3. It'll be good enough for the Kool-Aid drinkers, of course.

Hopefully, others still in control of their faculties will see through it.

[leesa]

4. A senior congressional official has to be anonymous?

What kind of government do we have?

This is so pathetic!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. I wonder if they'll include all the threats created by the invasion

itself...

[HuckleB]

6. Time for another commission, it seems. Time to decommission the CIA.

[struggle4progress]

7. kick for CIA as a propaganda agency

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