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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (26530)	8/28/2003 3:36:20 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) of 89467

Ray: just wait until the American people learn of this latest bombshell just posted on the LA Times website. It looks like the PNAC crowd was duped. Go figure... latimes.com U.S. Questions Pre-War Intelligence By Bob Drogin Times Staff Writer 7:38 PM PDT, August 27, 2003 <<...WASHINGTON -- Frustrated at the failure to find Saddam Hussein's suspected stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have launched a major effort to determine if they were victims of bogus Iraqi defectors who planted disinformation to mislead the West before the war. The goal, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official, "is to see if false information was put out there and got into legitimate channels and we were totally duped on it." He added, "We're re-interviewing all our sources of information on this. This is the entire intelligence community, not just the U.S."...>> <<...Although senior CIA officials insist that defectors were only partly responsible for the intelligence that triggered the decision to invade Iraq in March, other intelligence officials now fear that key portions of the prewar information may have been flawed. The issue raises fresh doubts as to whether illicit weapons will be found in Iraq...>>

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