"Greg Thielmann is another"whistle blower" to explore.He retired in Sept from State Dept. intel.It's on the latest CHB and I believe the Guardian had a similar piece."
U.S. Troops Could Be in Iraq in 4 Years
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=3&u=/ap/20030710/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq from Operation Infinite Freedom thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/943390/posts Excerpt:
When the war began in March, Iraq posed no threat to the United States or to its neighbors, a former senior State Department intelligence official said Wednesday.
Its missiles could not reach Israel, Saudi Arabia or Iran, said Greg Thielmann, who held a high post in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
But Thielmann, one of four critics at a session held by the private Arms Control Association, said the Bush administration had formed a "faith-based" policy on Iraq and took the approach that "we know the answers; give us the intelligence to support those answers."
Thielmann said the administration had distorted intelligence to fit its policy purposes. He said Iraq had no active nuclear weapons program and that while Tenet told Congress Iraq had Scud missiles, the intelligence finding actually was that the missiles could not be accounted for.