I'm just extrapolating from what I saw here.

Post #128,513 by bepatient 12/2/03 5:41:52 PM Reply	I'm just extrapolating from what I saw here. But, I see I misread the initial revival post of this thread...that apparently states that the lying stopped after the first war. In which case my wondering aloud about self-vetting intel is all bullshit anyway :-) So in the immortal words of Roseanne Rosannadanna... "Never mind." If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. _{Fudd's First Law of Opposition} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #128,515 by Simon_Jester 12/2/03 6:01:09 PM Reply	Nyah...just goes to show... That ol' Lt. Gen. Amir al-Saadi was probably not a nuclear scientist and believed what his scientists were telling...(probably because he would've killed them if that didn't say what he wanted them to say.) Apparently some of our Generals (who are probably not nuclear scientists) believed these same scientists. I'm glad we've got smarter Generals, right?
Post #140,784 by Simon_Jester 2/9/04 7:20:32 PM Reply	More stuff - DIA claimed defector not reliable.... An Iraqi military defector identified as unreliable by the Defense Intelligence Agency provided some of the information that went into United States intelligence estimates that Iraq had stockpiles of biological weapons at the time of the American invasion last March, senior government officials said Friday. [...] Intelligence officers from the D.I.A. interviewed the defector twice in early 2002 and circulated reports based on those debriefings. They concluded he had no firsthand information and might have been coached by the Iraqi National Congress, the officials said. That group, headed by Ahmad Chalabi, who had close ties to the Pentagon and Vice President Dick Cheney, had introduced the defector to American intelligence, the officials said. [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/politics/07INTE.html\| NY Times ]

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