"Pressed by Republican members of Congress, Negroponte’s office last March ordered the unprecedented release of millions of pages of Iraqi documents, most of them in Arabic, collected by the U.S. government over more than a decade.
Intelligence officials had objected at the time — but were overruled by President Bush.
Intelligence officials had objected at the time — but were overruled by President Bush.
Intelligence officials had objected at the time — but were overruled by President Bush.
Intelligence officials had objected at the time — but were overruled by President Bush.
A TRAITOR...right, LINDA?
According to the Times, conservative politicians and publications hoped analysis of the some 48,000 boxes of documents seized in the Iraq invasion would reinvigorate the search for proof that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Bush cited concerns about that as a major cause for the Iraq invasion. No such weapons have been found.
Until this week, the information had been posted gradually on public Internet servers run by the military. In announcing the postings, Negroponte’s office said the U.S. government had made no determination regarding the authenticity of the documents, their factual accuracy or the quality of any translations, when available."
