NY Times: U.S. Senator wants investigation into fake US
evidence against Iraq
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/15/2003
The New York Times reported that "top Democrat on the Senate
Intelligence Committee asked the FBI on Friday to investigate forged
documents the Bush administration used as evidence against Saddam Hussein
and his military ambitions in Iraq."
It added "Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said he was uneasy
about a possible campaign to deceive the public about the status of
Iraq's nuclear program."
The new York Times said "Rockefeller asked the FBI to determine the
source of the documents, the sophistication of the forgeries, the
motivation of those responsible, why intelligence agencies didn't
recognize them as forgeries and whether they are part of a larger
disinformation campaign."
After the US used the information as evidence to sway UN Security Members
for support of war on Iraq, Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, told the U.N. Security Council that the documents
are forgeries.
The New York Times quoted the Senator saying "there is a possibility
that the fabrication of these documents may be part of a larger deception
campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy
regarding Iraq.''
The Washington Post reported early this week that "The CIA, which
had also obtained the documents, had questions about "whether they
were accurate," said one intelligence official, and it decided not
to include them in its file on Iraq's program to procure weapons of mass
destruction."
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