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Powell: "some reasons for war were deliberately misleading"

#2694339 - 05/18/04 12:06 AM (19 years, 10 months ago)

Colin Powell has now admited that some of the reasons for war were deliberately misleading! Click here.

CIA sources on Iraq were 'deliberately misleading,' Powell complains

Mon May 17,12:51 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites) and other US government institutions were in some cases deliberately misled about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the war, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) has acknowledged.

The comments, made Sunday in an interview with NBC television, represented the first public official admission that the US government had been fed disinformation about Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s suspect arsenal of chemical and biological weapons and relayed it to the world community without questioning it.

"It turned out that the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and, in some cases, deliberately misleading," Powell said, appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. "And for that I am disappointed, and I regret it."

Powell delivered a landmark speech on banned Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the UN Security Council in February 2003, in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade its members to authorize US-led military action against Iraq (news - web sites).

In that presentation, he insisted the United States had "firsthand descriptions" of mobile biological weapons factories that he said presented a threat to international security.

He disclosed that the information came from an Iraqi defector, a chemical engineer who supervised one of these mobile facilities, and corroborated by "other sources."

"Unfortunately, that multiple sourcing over time has turned out to be not accurate," a humbled secretary of state said Sunday. "And so I'm deeply disappointed."

The Iraqi defector in question has not been publicly identified.

But reports leaked to the media since the beginning of the war said his code name was "Curveball" and he was the brother of one of the top aides of Ahmad Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress and long-time advocate of the US invasion of Iraq to topple the Saddam regime.

Powell said he was "very concerned" by this situation but insisted that his February 2003 presentation at the United Nations (news - web sites) "was based on the best information that the Central Intelligence Agency made available to me."

No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since the beginning of the war despite an intensive search by hundreds of US and British intelligence experts.

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Not only that, but he was interviewed by "Meet The Press" and one of his staff members tried to cut the interview off after to said it again! Click here.

Powell's Interview Is Cut Off
By COURTNEY C. RADSCH

Published: May 17, 2004

ASHINGTON, May 16 ? Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was abruptly cut off during an interview on Sunday on the NBC News program "Meet the Press" when one of his aides decided the interview had gone on long enough.

As Tim Russert, the program's host, began to ask his final question, the camera unexpectedly panned away from Mr. Powell, who was being interviewed in Jordan via a satellite link from Washington. In the confusion, Mr. Powell could be heard saying, "He's still asking me questions," to which a woman's voice answered, "No, he's not."

Mr. Powell, still off camera, said, "Tim, I'm sorry, I lost you," and added, "Emily, get out of the way." Mr. Russert, slightly irate, responded: "I think that was one of your staff, Mr. Secretary. I don't think that's appropriate." After a few seconds the camera returned to Mr. Powell and he finished the interview.

Betsy Fischer, the show's executive producer, identified the staff member as Emily Miller, deputy press secretary to Mr. Powell, and said Ms. Miller "pulled the plug" without warning. Although the interview was taped in advance, she said such interviews were usually run without being edited. Mr. Russert called it a case of "press management gone berserk."

"I've been doing this program for 13 years and nothing like that has ever happened," he said in a telephone interview. "I remember sometimes in countries around the world this happens, but not in America. This is a free press, and political figures can always say `I don't want to answer.' " He said he did not know if it was the content of the question that caused Ms. Miller's reaction or simply that the interview had gone over its allotted time.

Julie Reside, a State Department spokeswoman, said the interview had gone on considerably longer than scheduled, and that the personnel there "made every attempt to get NBC to finish up."

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