Waldorf-Transcripts raise alarm across Nato

Transcripts raise alarm across Nato

Monday June 2, 2003

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,968603,00.html

"...Transcripts of a private conversation between Jack Straw and Colin Powell expressing serious doubts about the reliability of intelligence on Iraq's banned weapons programme are being circulated in western government circles where there is a growing feeling that officials were deceived into supporting the Iraq war.

The document known as the "Waldorf transcripts" - after the New York hotel where the US secretary of state was staying before making a crucial speech to the UN security council earlier this year - is seen by the Guardian as part of an effort among Nato allies to "rein in some of the less acceptable policies of the Bush administration..."

http://www.yahoo.com/s/15341

Powell Was Under Pressure to Use Shaky Intel

Monday June 2, 2003

"...U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was under persistent pressure from the Pentagon and White House to include questionable intelligence in his report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction he delivered at the United Nations last February, a U.S. weekly reported. US News and World Report magazine said the first draft of the speech was prepared for Powell by Vice President Richard Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in late January..."

Powell: "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."

AFP

"...According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."

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