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Note the names that show up in this documentary which was RELEASED in December 2003--which means it was made in the fall of 2003:

The New York Times UNCOVERED: THE WAR ON IRAQ Movie Review
http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?title1=Uncovered%3A+The+War+on+Iraq+(Movie)

FILM REVIEW; Revisiting The Road To Iraq War, Step by Step

By DAVE KEHR
Published: August 20, 2004, Friday

With Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11'' approaching $150 million in worldwide grosses, it's hardly surprising that more political documentaries are turning up in theaters. Robert Greenwald's ''Uncovered: The War on Iraq'' began as a 58-minute DVD release in December 2003, and has now been expanded, with financial support from MoveOn.org and the Center for American Progress, into a 90-minute theatrical film that opens today in New York, Boston and Washington.

UNCOVERED
The War on Iraq

Produced and directed by Robert Greenwald; edited by Chris Gordan, Kimberly Ray and Deborah Zeitman; released by Cinema Libre. Running time: 83 minutes. This film is not rated.

WITH: David Albright, Robert Baer, Milt Bearden, Rand Beers, Bill Christison, David Corn, Philip Coyle, John Dean, Patrick Eddington, Chas Freeman, Graham Fuller, Mel Goodman, Larry C. Johnson, David A. Kay, John Brady Kiesling, Karen Kwiatkowski, Patrick Lang, David C. MacMichael, Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, Clare Short, Stansfield Turner, Henry Waxman, Thomas E. White, Joseph C. Wilson, Col. Mary Ann Wright and Peter Zimmerman.

Former CIA official looks to leak the truth
CHELSEA CONABOY, Concord Monitor. Concord, N.H.: Oct 5, 2004. pg. B.01

Copyright Concord Monitor/Sunday Monitor Oct 5, 2004

Retired CIA intelligence analyst Ray McGovern knows more than he can say. He won't talk, for instance, about what was discussed behind closed doors on the mornings when he would issue President George H.W. Bush his daily intelligence briefings.

McGovern spent 27 years in a position where secrecy was part of his job description. But for the last few months, he and a group of other former tight-lipped agents have been speaking out. Now he is asking others who are still within the system to break through layers of classification to leak what McGovern said is the truth about the war in Iraq and the junior Bush administration.

McGovern spent the latter half of last week touring the state. He gave presentations at Dartmouth College and in Rochester during the week and at the South Congregational Church in Concord Friday night.

He and his fellow whistleblowers call themselves Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. The group has about 45 members and has expanded since it first began in January 2003 to include not just CIA analysts but also former State Department employees and members of the FBI.

The former analysts sought each other out just before the start of the declared war on Iraq because, like their name implies, they needed a sanity check, McGovern said. They needed to compare notes on what they saw going on in the Bush administration and in the media.

"What we hoped, of course, was that the movement would become more than the sum of its parts," he said during a conversation with the Monitor before his presentation Friday.

The group has written letters to President Bush and General Secretary of the United Nations Kofi Annan and opinion pieces for online publications like Common Dreams and Salon.com.

The first analysis the CIA veterans took on together was of Colin Powell's speech before the United Nations on Feb. 5. McGovern said it was a challenge to see if the retirees still knew how to analyze like they once did.

"It was heady stuff, but it was really rigorous," he said.

Powell supplied charts and graphs detailing the location of chemical bunkers and ballistic missile-toting trucks and explaining Iraq's terrorist activity. The group finished their analysis the same day.

Their findings: Powell presented a lawyer's brief, a technical argument that was not forthcoming with fact. It was not a convincing case for war, McGovern said.

McGovern said a prostitution of the intelligence system has taken place. Some of its leaders have sold out and backed down under the pressure of the administration. Former CIA director George Tenet did not step up and explain that there was no concrete evidence to support the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he said. Real analysis would have presented inappropriate answers in the eyes of an administration that McGovern said had long before decided to go to war with Iraq.

Now, more than a year and half since the war was declared, McGovern asks his audiences, "Are we safer?"

"Unequivocally, no," he said. "We're not."

The Arab people all watch TV at night and have seen stories coming out of Abu Ghraib and Fallujah, he said. They have seen U.S.-built bulldozers wreaking havoc on the West Bank and the Gaza strip.

"We've created the longest recruiting lines Al Qaeda ever had," he said.

McGovern said the administration has been untruthful about the condition in Iraq. He said he thinks the CIA is being asked to withhold the truth from the American public.

In an essay called "High Time for Bush to Tell the Truth," published on Antiwar.com last Thursday, McGovern writes about how in 1968 Gen. William Westmoreland put an artificial ceiling on the reported number of armed Vietnamese Communists. It was an election year.

When the Tet offensive occurred and the National Liberation Front attacked nearly every city in South Vietnam, the actual strength and number of the enemy was revealed.

During the Vietnam War, McGovern said his colleague received a memo that directed CIA analysts not to release the numbers of armed enemies in Vietnam because the press would have a field day.

"This is what we call the smoking gun," McGovern said.

The memo was labeled classified. His friend did not leak it. McGovern could have. But instead, he told himself, "I can live through this dishonesty, keep my head down," he said. He had just been picked to go to Munich for a tour of duty. He had a great job, one in which he thought he was doing real work that was helping the country. So he stayed quiet. Now he regrets it.

Part of the message McGovern is pressing through his writing is to encourage current CIA analysts not to make his mistake. He said analysts may have many reasons not to leak - job security, a family, a mortgage.

"Do it anyway," he said. "That's the patriotic thing to do."

McGovern said such leaks could potentially affect the election. If the election is not postponed, that is. He said he thinks the groundwork already has been laid for doing so if a terrorist threat arises. The American people need to pay attention, he said, and push for it to go on.

Maria Comella, New Hampshire spokeswoman for the Bush campaign, disputed McGovern's claim that we are not safer. She said Bush has been pursuing a strategy focused on defeating terrorists and has been implementing policies consistent with the Sept. 11 Commission finding.

"He's realized that in our post-9/11 world we've reached a point where we are safer, but there's still more to do," she said.

She said the Sept. 11 committee found no evidence that the exaggeration of Iraq's weapons capabilities came as a result of politics or pressure on the intelligence community.

McGovern's visit to New Hampshire was sponsored by New Hampshire Peace Action. McGovern has made about 35 presentations and met with dozens more in towns across the country this year. He is taking time off from his job as co-director of the Servant Leadership School, a school in Washington, D.C., that helps people involved in social organizations working for the poor to get organized and find a community in which to stay grounded.

McGovern said the people he works with look at the expenses of an unnecessary war and can already see how it has cost the poorer neighborhoods in the nation's capital.