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05 June 2008

Who's Going to Step Up?

Photo of Robert H. Jackson, U.S.S.Ct. Justice and Chief U.S. Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials
As we suspected, knew, and claimed: The Bush Administration's claims in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq were false and they KNEW it at the time.

LINKS:
  • PDF | Report on Intelligence activities regarding Iraq

  • PDF | Report on public statements from the Senate Intelligence Committee

  • Blog | Nukes and Spooks

  • On the Web | Phase I Senate report on Iraq Intelligence

  • On the Web | Secretary of State Colin Powell to United Nations, 2/5/2003

  • On the Web | President Bush's State of the Union, 1/28/2003

  • On the Web | President Bush's speech in Cincinnati, 10/7/2002

  • On the Web | President Bushl's speech to the United Nations, 9/12/2002

  • On the Web | Vice President Cheney speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 8/26/2002

  • On the Web | Archive of McClatchy's Iraq intelligence reporting

  • On the Web | Nukes and Spooks: McClatchy coverage
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