Die Zeit's report leaves in tatters the "evidence" cited by Secretary of S

[tlcandie]

http://www.counterpunch.org/vips08232003.html

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Bittner notes that, like their American counterparts, German intelligence officials had to hold their noses as Powell on February 5 at the UN played fast and loose with intelligence he insisted came from "solid sources."
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Clearly, some BND officials are fed up with the abuse of intelligence they have witnessed--and especially the trifling with the intelligence that they have shared with the US from their own sources. At least one such official appears to have seen it as a patriotic duty to expose what appears to be a deliberate distortion.
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Small wonder that Gingrich, in a recent unguarded moment on TV, conceded that Tenet "is so grateful to President Bush that he will do anything for him."
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[Kellanved]

1. I have some trouble with "die Zeit"

It is a great weekly and I read it regularly (I know even one of their writers).

However: Die Zeit was very much in favour of Germany joining the coalition before the war.