Powell questions handling of Iraqi defector

[The Straight Story]

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that U.S. intelligence officials should be questioned over their handling of "Curveball," an Iraqi defector whose now discredited claims on weapons of mass destruction helped fuel the Bush administration's drive to war in 2003.

It has become clear over the years that "the source called Curveball was totally unreliable," Powell said in a statement to CNN.

"The question should be put to the CIA and the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) as to why this wasn't known before the false information was put into (a key intelligence estimate) sent to Congress, the president's State of the Union address and my February 5 presentation to the U.N."

Powell, in an address to members of the United Nations Security Council in February 2003, said the U.S. government had "first-hand descriptions of biological weapons factories on wheels."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/17/powell.curveball.iraq/index.html?hpt=T2

[Boswell]

1. it was pretty dammed CLEAR in 2000

but then you went and showed the cartoons based on his BS at the UN.

[devilgrrl]

2. Powell knew it was bullshit from the moment go but went along with it anyway.

F' him.