More of the same
If you haven’t got the truth, or the truth is simply inconvenient for your goals, why then just make it up. Once more the Bush administration is preparing to use lies in order to go to war, this time with Iran. While it is not surprising that Republicans would do this (at least those that still support Bush) it is more surprising and certainly more disappointing that any Democrat would step to the forefront and defend the report by stating it wasn’t ready yet etc. Those are weak excuses. Thefact remains that they took the “intelliigence” seriously enough to write it into the report in the first place knowing it was false and the Democrats, once more, willingly went along with it.
The UN nuclear watchdog has protested to the US government over a report on Iran’s nuclear programme, calling it “erroneous” and “misleading”.
In a leaked letter, the IAEA said a congressional report contained serious distortions of the agency’s own findings on Iran’s nuclear activity.
The IAEA also took “strong exception” to claims made over the removal of a senior safeguards inspector.
There was no immediate comment from Washington over the letter.
But Rep Rush Holt, a Democratic member of the House intelligence committee, which released the report, said it had never been meant for release to the public.
“This report was not ready for prime time and it was not prepared in a way that we can rely on. It relied heavily on unclassified testimony,” he told the BBC’s PM programme. (more…)
