NY Times: U.S. Senator wants investigation into fake US evidence against Iraq
Iraq-USA, Politics, 3/15/2003

The New York Times reported that "top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee asked the FBI on Friday to investigate forged documents the Bush administration used as evidence against Saddam Hussein and his military ambitions in Iraq."

It added "Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said he was uneasy about a possible campaign to deceive the public about the status of Iraq's nuclear program."

The new York Times said "Rockefeller asked the FBI to determine the source of the documents, the sophistication of the forgeries, the motivation of those responsible, why intelligence agencies didn't recognize them as forgeries and whether they are part of a larger disinformation campaign."

After the US used the information as evidence to sway UN Security Members for support of war on Iraq, Mohammed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the U.N. Security Council that the documents are forgeries.

The New York Times quoted the Senator saying "there is a possibility that the fabrication of these documents may be part of a larger deception campaign aimed at manipulating public opinion and foreign policy regarding Iraq.''

The Washington Post reported early this week that "The CIA, which had also obtained the documents, had questions about "whether they were accurate," said one intelligence official, and it decided not to include them in its file on Iraq's program to procure weapons of mass destruction."

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