Germans Say They Warned Powell's Data On Iraq Arms Was Tainted

struggle4progress

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Wed May-12-04 10:10 PM
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Germans Say They Warned Powell's Data On Iraq Arms Was Tainted

CIA Germ Claim Was Disputed
German government officials claim the CIA disregarded their warnings about the unreliability of a key piece of Iraqi weapons intelligence that was featured prominently in last year's landmark address to the United Nations by Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Two German government sources close to the issue said German intelligence had told the CIA prior to Powell's February 2003 speech that detailed information on so-called mobile germ factories in Iraq was coming from an Iraqi defector with a questionable reputation.
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http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=perelman20040512819

Looks more and more like *&co knew they didn't have anything before marching off to war ...

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Media_Lies_Daily

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Wed May-12-04 10:17 PM
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1. Tenet told Powell not to use the data in his speech to the UN...

...so how could the Germans make this claim? Tenet also told Junior not to use that same data in his State of the Union Address.

And yes, the NeoCons knew they had nothing prior to going to war with Iraq.

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Wed May-12-04 10:28 PM
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4. I think Tenet advice to Powell was ambiguous, and clear to junior

George Tenet and John Negroponte set behind Colin at the U.N. Security counsel hearing.

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Wed May-12-04 10:18 PM
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2. Truth be told, pretty much everyone told them that they were full of shit

before the invasion. Except Blair, but then, poodles don't bite the hand that feeds them.

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riverwalker

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Wed May-12-04 10:18 PM
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3. Douglas Feith again

source of bad intel, source of torture orders. Seems whenever we follow a trail of horse droppings, it leads right to his door.

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Thu May-13-04 03:05 AM
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5. true (Spiegel, April 5th)

--snip
Many a politician in Berlin would have preferred to lock the story away in a safe, but the CIA, at its headquarters in Langley, was already quite familiar with the details of the report.

Berlin eventually agreed, albeit reluctantly. However, the Germans also demanded that it be disclosed that the story was based on a single source and had not yet been corroborated, and that there was no information on what had transpired since 1998, when the Iraqi defected. And, because "Curveball's" family was still in Iraq, Powell was not to reveal his identity under any circumstances.
--snap
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/english/0,1518,294118,00.html

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