Some of you may recall that these same writers reported back in Oct.2002 that CIA agents were angry about the Bush administration urging them to "cook the books" on Iraq intelligence. Too bad most media outlets ignored the story.
Landay and Strobel are two of the best mainstream reporters on this story.
By Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - A former CIA director who advocated war against Saddam Hussein helped arrange the debriefing of an Iraqi defector who falsely claimed that Iraq had biological-warfare laboratories disguised as yogurt and milk trucks.
R. James Woolsey's role as a go-between was detailed in a classified Defense Department report chronicling how the defector's assertion came to be included in the Bush administration's case for war even after the defector was determined to be a fabricator.
A senior U.S. official summarized portions of the report for Knight Ridder on condition of anonymity because it's top secret. The report said that on Feb. 11, 2002, Woolsey telephoned Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Linton Wells about the defector and told him how to contact the man, who'd been produced by an Iraqi exile group eager to oust Saddam. Wells said he passed the information to the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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