The Guardian: White House 'lied about Saddam threat'

Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday July 10, 2003
The Guardian

Photo: Whistleblower Greg Thielmann

A former US intelligence official who served under the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of lying about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

The claims came as the Bush administration was fighting to shore up its credibility among a series of anonymous government leaks over its distortion of US intelligence to manufacture a case against Saddam.

*UPDATE*

Bush was told not to use Niger uranium claim on Iraq in SOTU speech by CIA

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/10/lol.06.html

This was the first time an administration official has put his name to specific claims. The whistleblower, Gregory Thielmann, served as a director in the state department's bureau of intelligence until his retirement in September, and had access to the classified reports which formed the basis for the US case against Saddam, spelled out by President Bush and his aides.

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