Bush Aides Gave One-Sided View of Iraqi Data -- NYT

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How the White House Embraced Disputed Iraqi Arms Intelligence
By DAVID BARSTOW, WILLIAM J. BROAD
and JEFF GERTH

Published: October 3, 2004

In 2002, at a crucial juncture on the path to war, senior members of the Bush administration gave a series of speeches and interviews in which they asserted that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his nuclear weapons program.

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Today, the Intelligence Committee's report makes clear, that estimate stands as one of the most flawed documents in the history of American intelligence. The committee concluded unanimously that almost every major finding in the estimate was wrong, unfounded or overblown.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/international/middleeast/03tube.html?ei=5090&en=2e1cdcc5b66e0332&ex=1254456000&partner=rssuserland&pagewanted=all&position=

[Liberal_Andy]

1. and the NYT aided and abetted every chance it got.

:nuke: , my ass.

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2. Authors

David Barstow, Author
August 2004: Winner of Pulitzer Prize for story about workplace safety in rural California.

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/2004/public-service/works/nytimes3.html


William J. Broad,
writes about science for The New York Times and has twice shared the Pulitzer Prize with colleagues there. Covering such topics as outer space, he has worked at the newspaper since 1983 and had written about science for more than two decades, receiving every major journalistic prize in the field. He is the author of Teller's War: The Top-Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception, Star Warriors : A Penetrating Look into the Lives of the Young Scientists Behind Our Space Age Weaponry, and Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science.

http://www.annonline.com/interviews/970422/biography.html


As for Gerth . . . White House Apologist, Whitewater muckraker . . . this effort is a flip-flop for him. Good.

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