Curveball, the Iraqi defector whose fabricated claims that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction were used by the administration in its case for war, remains in the protection of the German intelligence service, reports ABC News' Brian Ross.
Intelligence gathered from Curveball became the centerpiece of then Secretary of State Colin Powell's address to the United Nation, urging military action in Iraq. "It was almost that which made the whole case seem effective. It was just so dramatic", said Powell's chief of staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.
But a CIA official who headed European Operations at the agency, Tyler Drumheller, said that he warned both the State Department and the CIA that Curveball was a fabricator and lacked credibility. "We said, 'This is from Curveball. Don't use this'", Drumheller revealed.
Brian Ross' report on ABC's World News Tonight can be watched below:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=31362
Please also see:
ENCAMPMENT TO STOP THE WAR - DAY 1, by Les Blough
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24093.shtml
The Declaration of Peace http://declarationofpeace.org
Interviews and Videos: Veterans and Military Families
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1454
Civil War Proceeded Samarra Bombing
“…Analysts have also dismissed the administration's position on the issue as an attempt to shift the attention from its failed Iraq strategy and justify the sluggish progress to a growing opposition at home.”
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173694818079&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Felicity Arbuthnot: Iran - Upping the Ante
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3279&blz=1
Intelligence gathered from Curveball became the centerpiece of then Secretary of State Colin Powell's address to the United Nation, urging military action in Iraq. "It was almost that which made the whole case seem effective. It was just so dramatic", said Powell's chief of staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.
But a CIA official who headed European Operations at the agency, Tyler Drumheller, said that he warned both the State Department and the CIA that Curveball was a fabricator and lacked credibility. "We said, 'This is from Curveball. Don't use this'", Drumheller revealed.
Brian Ross' report on ABC's World News Tonight can be watched below:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=31362
Please also see:
ENCAMPMENT TO STOP THE WAR - DAY 1, by Les Blough
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_24093.shtml
The Declaration of Peace http://declarationofpeace.org
Interviews and Videos: Veterans and Military Families
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1454
Civil War Proceeded Samarra Bombing
“…Analysts have also dismissed the administration's position on the issue as an attempt to shift the attention from its failed Iraq strategy and justify the sluggish progress to a growing opposition at home.”
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1173694818079&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Felicity Arbuthnot: Iran - Upping the Ante
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=3279&blz=1