PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence Findings("White Paper" Drafted before NIE even Requested)

[sabra]

Source: National Security Archive

"White Paper" Drafted before NIE even Requested

Washington D.C., August 22, 2008 - The U.S. intelligence community buckled sooner in 2002 than previously reported to Bush administration pressure for data justifying an invasion of Iraq, according to a documents posting on the Web today by National Security Archive senior fellow John Prados.

The documents suggest that the public relations push for war came before the intelligence analysis, which then conformed to public positions taken by Pentagon and White House officials. For example, a July 2002 draft of the "White Paper" ultimately issued by the CIA in October 2002 actually pre-dated the National Intelligence Estimate that the paper purportedly summarized, but which Congress did not insist on until September 2002.

A similar comparison between a declassified draft and the final version of the British government's "White Paper" on Iraq weapons of mass destruction adds to evidence that the two nations colluded in the effort to build public support for the invasion of Iraq. Dr. Prados concludes that the new evidence tends to support charges raised by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan and by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in its long-delayed June 2008 "Phase II" report on politicization of intelligence.

Read more: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB254/index.htm

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. impeachable

[EFerrari]

2. Good. Now Nancy can just send a staffer to the NA to pick up

her evidence.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

3. Jail

[Supersedeas]

4. will Nancy Disaster do her job or at least step aside -- gawd!

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Impeachment wouldn't be prudent.

[stubtoe]

5. This is an excellent website, Sabra, thanks. n/t

[libodem]

7. Those capitalist demons

were writing President Clinton letters begging to go in to Iraq in 1998. There is some letter undersigned by all the criminals who are now the big players in this blood for oil scam leveraged by Feith and Pearl. These monsters need to go down in history as the authors of the Dark Ages of the new Millennium.

[struggle4progress]

8. The CIA has never really been an "intelligence organization": it's simply been

a little "dirty tricks" office for the President

[rcsl1998]

9. .