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Article: An Iraqi's Likely Story
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 28, 2003
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Bush administration hard-liners have a dangerous habit of
selectively using intelligence to support the policy conclusions they
favor. The latest example of that tendentious approach comes in the
leaked Pentagon memo on alleged operational links between Saddam
Hussein and al Qaeda that was summarized last week by the Weekly
Standard.
To understand why the memo sent to the Senate Intelligence
Committee by Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith was
misleading, a little background is necessary.
The claim that Hussein's intelligence service had contacts with
al Qaeda isn't new, and by itself it doesn't prove much. In the murky
world of espionage, operatives are constantly checking out ...