Vanity Fair's "The Rush To War" article from April 2004?

[zaj]

I think that's about the date of the article.

Has anyone found a copy of this article online? I had the original but tossed it. I should have at least scanned a copy...

They included the story (and both original and redacted versions) of BushCo hiding the uncertainty of the intel from Congress and the Public.

Anyone?

Thanx!

[zaj]

1. bump

[slipslidingaway]

2. Maybe this...

The Path to War

Special Report: The Rush to Invade Iraq-; The Ultimate Inside Account

by Bryan Burrough, Evgenia Peretz, David Rose, and David Wise
Vanity Fair
May 2004

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/archive/2004/vanityfair0504.html

"The centerpiece of the Bush administration's case for an invasion of Iraq, the presentation that laid out the key pieces of intelligence the U.S. government had gathered about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and his purported links to al-Qaeda terrorists, was delivered by Secretary of State Colin Powell at the United Nations on February 5, 2003...."

This turned up on a google search also, it mentions another VF article under lesson 3.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0515,vest,62865,6.html

[zaj]

3. That's it (mostly)... but...

2 questions...

1) Did the full Congress get the full (classified) NIE? Or did only certain members of Congress get the full (classified) NIE?

2) Any idea where to find the images from the "sidebar on page 286"? That was good stuff...

<snip>
The 90-page, classified N.I.E. was deemed insufficient for a Congress deliberating on war or peace. Legislators needed to refer to a public document, one that the American people themselves could read in order to decide whether Saddam posed an imminent threat. Graham asked for such a document, called a White Paper, which the C.I.A. handed over several days later. The paper, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs," was a declassified, 25-page condensation of the N.I.E., and it included an even further distillation of dramatic "Key Judgments."

Unfortunately, the White Paper not only condensed but also distorted and manipulated the intelligence in the N.I.E. to paint an even worse threat. (See the sidebar on page 286 for a detailed comparison of the N.I.E. and the White Paper's "Key Judgments" by intelligence expert John Prados.) Cautious evaluations were converted into assertions of fact, and conclusions were revised, not merely abridged, in order to make the strongest possible case for war.

<snip>

[slipslidingaway]

4. Sorry do not have the answers. n/t

[Scout1071]

5. I just dumped all my old issues a week ago in a fall cleaning frenzy.

Damn.

PS - Welcome from another KC DU'er!

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