Abu Ghraib Abuse Video
しかし我々はイラク開戦までの経緯をつぶさにみてきている。これまで我々が見てきたのは、失策などという生易しいものではなく、大衆をだますための意図的な情報操作に他ならない。
嘘は嘘を呼ぶ。
権力あってのメインストリーム・メディアが教えてくれないこの格言を思い出すために、以下の情報を今一度思い起こされたい。
チェイニーの尋常ではない度重なるCIA訪問は何もうまいコーヒーを出してくれるからそこに暇つぶしで行っていたわけではないのだ。情報分析官はプレッシャーを感じ、ベテラン分析官は出て行ってほしいと言明している。
警告を発した関係者が、言われなき誹謗を受け、そして身分を明かされ、危険にさらされるという出来事もあった。
イラク開戦を目的にした国連スパイ活動を暴露したガンは投獄の危機に直面した。
イギリスでも情報誤認原因隠蔽の動きがある。そこで飛び出すのは、そう。魔法の言葉、「情報機関の失策」だろう。
それにしても、あなたはこうした嘘を許しますか？
大量破壊兵器で報告書発表 米上院「イラク情報欠陥」
http://flash24.kyodo.co.jp/?MID=SCS&PG=STORY&NGID=intl&NWID=2004070901002684
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米上院情報特別委員会は９日、イラクの大量破壊兵器に関する米政府の情報の精度を検証した報告書を発表する。
米メディアによると、旧フセイン政権による核兵器や生物・化学兵器の開発、保有に関する情報が、中央情報局（ＣＩＡ）など情報機関の「思い込みに基づいた欠陥情報」だったとするなどの厳しい内容。
ＮＢＣテレビが入手した報告書の要約は、ＣＩＡと国防情報局（ＤＩＡ）など他の情報機関との連携が機能していなかったことが、情報を誤って評価した原因などと指摘。組織統合や指揮系統の一元化など、情報収集体制の改革を求めている。
大量破壊兵器の存在を大義として開戦に踏み切ったブッシュ政権にとっては、今年１月に米調査団のケイ団長が「イラクに大量破壊兵器はない」と言明して辞任したことに続く打撃になりそうだ。
Cheney's CIA visits pressured us: analysts
http://www.smh.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/06/05/1054700335400.html
June 6 2003
Multiple visits to the CIA by the United States Vice-President, Dick Cheney, created an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments on Iraq fit with Bush Administration policy objectives, intelligence officials said.
They said Mr Cheney and his chief of staff, "Scooter" Libby, questioned analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al-Qaeda.
Mr Cheney took the lead in the Administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction.
The visits "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here", one agency official said.
Other officials said they were not influenced by the visits from Mr Cheney's office, and some said they welcomed them.
But the disclosure of his unusual hands-on role comes on the heels of mounting concern from intelligence officials and members of Congress that the Administration may have exaggerated intelligence it received about Iraq to build a case for war.
While visits to CIA headquarters by a sitting vice-president are not unknown, they are unusual, intelligence officials said.
A spokeswoman for Mr Cheney declined to discuss the matter.
In a signal of the Bush Administration's concern over the issue, two top Pentagon officials held a news conference on Wednesday to challenge allegations they pressured the CIA or other agencies to slant intelligence. "I know of no pressure," said Douglas Feith, the under-secretary for policy.
Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said on Wednesday that he would co-operate with a parliamentary inquiry into his Government's use of intelligence material.
Tom Allard reports: Australian defence intelligence officials told a Senate committee yesterday that their analysis of the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction at times had a difference in emphasis from that of their US and British colleagues.
They still believed such arms would be found but they conceded there were always doubts about the extent to which Iraq was armed. "We were cautious about the lack of weaponisation," the director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, Frank Lewincamp, said. "That was a consistent part of our assessment and it remains the case."
The Washington Post
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/05/1054700335400.html
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