Powell's Case, a Year Later: Gaps in Picture of Iraq Arms
- After several lengthy sessions, he appeared in New York on Feb. 5, with Mr. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, seated behind him, to tell the United Nations Security Council that the evidence added up to "facts" and "not assertions" that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and that it was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program and building a fleet of advanced missiles.
- TVNL Comment: The media, including the NY Times is just now picking this up? TvNewsLies was the first organization to point out the flaws and the out right lies in Powell’s presentation.
Powell Says New Data May Have Affected War Decision
- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday that he does not know whether he would have recommended an invasion of Iraq if he had been told it had no stockpiles of banned weapons, even as he offered a broad defense of the Bush administration's decision to go to war.
Powell: Some Iraq testimony not 'solid'
- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said his pre-war testimony to the U.N. Security Council about Iraq's alleged mobile, biological weapons labs was based on information that appears not to be "solid."
Germans Say They Warned Powell's Data On Iraq Arms Was Tainted
- Two German government sources close to the issue said German intelligence had told the CIA prior to Powell's February 2003 speech that detailed information on so-called mobile germ factories in Iraq was coming from an Iraqi defector with a questionable reputation.
- "We gave the Americans all the information — including the possible problems — well in advance of Powell's speech," a German intelligence official told the Forward. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the issue.
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