More Evidence of More Lies

This is what the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was telling Bush and the neocons before invading Iraq on whether there were links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda; "Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements" ........ "Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control." The DIA report, dated February 2002, on the reliablity of the informant that George Bush and Colin Powell would later (below) use as their source; "Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, "was intentionally misleading the debriefers" in making claims about Iraqi support for Al Qaeda’s work with illicit weapons". and "It is possible he does not know any further details; it is more likely this individual is intentionally misleading the debriefers," Using the same intelligence, the same captured informant's information, here is what George Bush told the American people and Colin Powell told the UN; George Bush at a major speech in October 2002 in Cincinnati - "we’ve learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases." Colin Powell before the UN on 2/3/03, a full year after the DIA debunked the information he used [I have been]..."tracing the story of a senior terrorist operative telling how Iraq provided training in these weapons to Al Qaeda." Two more clear examples of this administration lying in the lead up to invading Iraq. They knew...you should have... Report Warned Bush Team About Intelligence Doubts

A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document. The document, an intelligence report from February 2002, said it was probable that the prisoner, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, "was intentionally misleading the debriefers" in making claims about Iraqi support for Al Qaeda’s work with illicit weapons. The document provides the earliest and strongest indication of doubts voiced by American intelligence agencies about Mr. Libi’s credibility. Without mentioning him by name, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, and other administration officials repeatedly cited Mr. Libi's information as "credible" evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda members in the use of explosives and illicit weapons. Among the first and most prominent assertions was one by Mr. Bush, who said in a major speech in Cincinnati in October 2002 that "we’ve learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases." The newly declassified portions of the document were made available by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Mr. Levin said the new evidence of early doubts about Mr. Libi’s statements dramatized what he called the Bush administration’s misuse of prewar intelligence to try to justify the war in Iraq. That is an issue that Mr. Levin and other Senate Democrats have been seeking to emphasize, in part by calling attention to the fact that the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee has yet to deliver a promised report, first sought more than two years ago, on the use of prewar intelligence.