CIA Believed WMD Stories because of lie detector test

a_unique_person · 10th September 2006, 10:48 PM

False information, that was passed onto the CIA because it was wanted they wanted to hear, was accepted as true, because they tested those giving the information with Lie Detector tests.

Quote:

THE two long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee reports released last week shed new light on why US intelligence agencies provided inaccurate pre-war information about Saddam Hussein and his weapons programs.
The reports detail how three Iraqi exiles' fabricated or exaggerated stories were accepted as truth because they passed lie detector tests.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...826813730.html

Azure · 10th September 2006, 10:49 PM

I thought Bush had it wrong, and not the intelligence community?

a_unique_person · 10th September 2006, 11:02 PM

We already know that when Bush asked for proof from Tenet, he was just wanting a reason to give the people for the invasion. That already been planned, and was going to happen WMD or not. The 'proof' that was offered by Powell to the UN had a lot of the intelligence community choking on their corn flakes, in the CIA and around the world.

Azure · 11th September 2006, 10:21 AM

Ah, so Bush made up everything.

What the article about then?

10th September 2006, 10:48 PM	#1
a_unique_person Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mt Disappointment Posts: 33,329	CIA Believed WMD Stories because of lie detector test False information, that was passed onto the CIA because it was wanted they wanted to hear, was accepted as true, because they tested those giving the information with Lie Detector tests. Quote: THE two long-awaited Senate Intelligence Committee reports released last week shed new light on why US intelligence agencies provided inaccurate pre-war information about Saddam Hussein and his weapons programs. The reports detail how three Iraqi exiles' fabricated or exaggerated stories were accepted as truth because they passed lie detector tests. http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...826813730.html
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10th September 2006, 11:02 PM	#3
a_unique_person Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Mt Disappointment Posts: 33,329	We already know that when Bush asked for proof from Tenet, he was just wanting a reason to give the people for the invasion. That already been planned, and was going to happen WMD or not. The 'proof' that was offered by Powell to the UN had a lot of the intelligence community choking on their corn flakes, in the CIA and around the world.
	__________________ *Continually pushing the boundaries of mediocrity.* Everything is possible, but not everything is probable. For if a man pretend to me that God hath spoken to him supernaturally, and immediately, and I make doubt of it, I cannot easily perceive what argument he can produce to oblige me to believe it. Hobbes

10th September 2006, 10:49 PM	#2
Azure Master Poster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Alberta Posts: 2,538	I thought Bush had it wrong, and not the intelligence community?

11th September 2006, 10:21 AM	#4
Azure Master Poster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Alberta Posts: 2,538	Ah, so Bush made up everything. What the article about then?