US Censored WMD Report

[Darkhawk28]

This definitely brings forth the argument toward the administration lying to the American people about WMD's.

Scientist says US censored Iraq WMD report

 

[glenn1]

I would expect some censoring in any report of this type, I can't see where the information involved would be a security issue however, since the contents mentioned aren't revealing sources or other sensitive information.

And while the inspector has the right to disagree with the report contents, ultimately it's not his call, the entity which pays for the report decides what goes in it. If this were an outside entity producing the report and the U.S. government stopped them from disseminating it, that's censorship. When it's a government report and they choose not to discuss a subject, it's not censorship. I do think it was an extremely poor judgement call on the government's part and leads to (IMHO valid) questions about their motives for having the report done in the first place and what they thought its utility would be absent the mentioned information. Either way this will hurt the Administration's credibility more than having this come out in the original report would have.

 

[conjur]

I'd heard about this on the news this morning.

If anyone at this point still thinks Saddam had WMDs at the time of the invasion, they are just truly beyond hope.

 

[Gaard]

The ISG was allowed to mention a find of aluminum pipes but were not allowed to mention that their probable intended use was not nuclear.

Pathetic.

The report was not allowed to mention two trailers held at the ISG camp which the CIA had previously labeled mobile biological weapon laboratories, Barton said.

?They were nothing to do with biology,? he said. ?We believed that they were hydrogen generators.?

Pathetic.

?Both Washington and London wanted other things put in and to make it - I can only use these words - to make it sexier,? Barton said.

Barton said he quit immediately after the report was completed and stated in his resignation letter that it was because the process was dishonest.

Pathetic.


Bunch of slimeballs.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Gaard

The ISG was allowed to mention a find of aluminum pipes but were not allowed to mention that their probable intended use was not nuclear.

Pathetic.

The report was not allowed to mention two trailers held at the ISG camp which the CIA had previously labeled mobile biological weapon laboratories, Barton said.

?They were nothing to do with biology,? he said. ?We believed that they were hydrogen generators.?

Pathetic.

?Both Washington and London wanted other things put in and to make it - I can only use these words - to make it sexier,? Barton said.

Barton said he quit immediately after the report was completed and stated in his resignation letter that it was because the process was dishonest.

Pathetic.


Bunch of slimeballs.

How else to make billions and billions for Halliburton and other companies in the future by raping Iraq's resources under the guise of "spreading democracy"?