Los Angeles Times: CIA Felt Pressure to Alter Iraq Data, Author Says
A former CIA official has announced the upcoming release of a new book entitled, "Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror." The book is the work of an anonymous author who has held a number of high-ranking agency positions, including serving as the head of a special unit tracking Osama bin Laden for three years.
Chillingly, the author states that after the 9/11 attacks, CIA analysts were repeatedly ordered to rewrite any intelligence assessments that disputed a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. "We on the Bin Laden side were required repeatedly to check, double-check and triple-check our files about a connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq," he says, although he maintains that the CIA never altered their conclusions.
"They knew the answer [they wanted] before they asked the question," he concluded.
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Chillingly, the author states that after the 9/11 attacks, CIA analysts were repeatedly ordered to rewrite any intelligence assessments that disputed a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. "We on the Bin Laden side were required repeatedly to check, double-check and triple-check our files about a connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq," he says, although he maintains that the CIA never altered their conclusions.
"They knew the answer [they wanted] before they asked the question," he concluded.
Read about it here.
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