For those of you whom may be watching the upcoming Frontline investigation Cheney CIA Darkside the following may be of interest.
In the lead up to the War in Iraq Congress and the Public was given what is known as the White Paper. I came across the following information regarding the White Paper at a website known as globalsecurity and this is what they have on their website
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WHITE PAPER ON IRAQ'S WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PROGRAMS
(U) On October 4, 2002, three days after the National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) published an unclassified paper, Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs. The paper was drafted and ultimately released as a white paper on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs, but the Intelligence Community (IC) intended the paper to also meet requests from Congress for an unclassified version of the classified NIE.
(U) The unclassified paper was substantively similar to, although not nearly as detailed as, the classified NIE. The key judgments were almost identical in layout and substance in both papers. The key judgments of the unclassified paper were missing many of the caveats and some references to alternative agency views that were used in the classified NIE, however. Removing caveats such as "we judge" or "we assess" changed many sentences in the unclassified paper to statements of fact rather than assessments. For example, the classified NIE said,
We judge that all key aspects - research & development (R&D), production, and weaponization - of Iraq's offensive biological weapons (BW) program are active and that most elements are larger and more advanced than they were before the Gulf War, while the unclassified paper said, All key aspects - research & development (R&D), production, and weaponization - of Iraq's offensive BW program are active and that most elements are larger and more advanced than they were before the Gulf War.
(U) Committee staff asked the NIO why the caveats, such as "we judge" and "we assess" were removed from the key judgments when they were declassified for use in the unclassified paper...
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Then I came across another site which monitors journalists being harmed as the result of occupational hazards and what do we find here
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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has denounced the laying of charges against two journalists from the conservative daily "Berlingske Tidende". On 26 April 2004, Jesper Larsen and Michael Bjerre were questioned and charged with "publishing information illegally obtained by a third party" under Article 152-d of the Criminal Code. They face a possible six-month prison sentence.
"It would be unacceptable for these journalists to be convicted for having made public information which calls into question a major foreign policy decision and is thus clearly a matter of public interest," the organisation said.
In a series of articles published since 22 February, the journalists quoted excerpts from Danish military intelligence reports, given to them by agent Frank Soeholm Grevil, which denied the availability of credible information on the existence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq before the March 2003 military intervention.
The existence of WMD was the principal argument put forward by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen to justify Danish involvement alongside the American and British-led coalition. Grevil, who was also charged, was upset by the way in which the intelligence reports were interpreted by the government
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So how is it that the United States Legislative Branch came up with the conclusion that poor Bush JR and Cheney were victims of intelligence failure? When the very classified information used is loaded with caveats. Even members of the Legislative Branch was very well aware of the difference between the classified version and the unclassified version.
We are being lied to by both the Legislative Branch of our government and the Executive Branch of our government.