D_Raay
02-14-2005, 01:35 PM
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4130247
An Australian scientist involved in the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq today said the CIA censored his reporting so that it suggested the weapons existed.
He also accused the head of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee of wanting to to make the report “sexier.”
Rod Barton, a microbiologist who worked for Australian intelligence for more than 20 years, told Australian TV he quit the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) in disgust at the censorship of its interim report presented to the US Congress in March last year.
“We left the impression that, yes, maybe there were ... WMD out there,” Barton said. “So I thought it was dishonest.”
Barton, an experienced weapons hunter who joined the UN search for Saddam Hussein’s illicit arsenal in 1991, said the censorship in the US investigation began after Charles Duelfer became the new head of ISG in February 2004.
Barton said Duelfer wanted “a different style of report altogether” which he had discussed with President George Bush and the CIA.
Barton said the report was to have no conclusions.
“I said to him, ’I believe it’s dishonest,”’ Barton said. “If we know certain things and we’re asked to provide a report, we should say what we found and what we haven’t found and put that in the report.”
Duelfer’s staff and senior CIA staff had stipulated what ”politically difficult” information could not be included in the report, Barton said.
The ISG was allowed to mention a find of aluminium pipes but were not allowed to mention that their probable intended use was not nuclear.
The pipes had earlier been publicly described as likely components for centrifuges to be used for nuclear enrichment and were highlighted by the US-led coalition of the willing in the case for war against Iraq.
The report was not allowed to mention two trailers held at the ISG camp which the CIA had previously labelled mobile biological weapon laboratories, Barton said.
“They were nothing to do with biology,” he said. “We believed that they were hydrogen generators.”
He added, “Charles’ attitude was he did not want to inspect them or know. Then he could genuinely say to Washington that he doesn’t know what they are for.”
Barton said the draft report was circulated to Washington and London.
Duelfer refused a request from John Scarlett, chairman of the United Kingdom’s Joint Intelligence Committee, to include new elements, Barton said, without saying what the new elements were.
“Both Washington and London wanted other things put in and to make it – I can only use these words – to make it sexier,” Barton said.
Barton said he quit immediately after the report was completed and stated in his resignation letter that it was because the process was dishonest.
This proves that the claim that Iraq had WMDs was not an "intelligence oversight" but an intentionally crafted deception. In other words, the governments of Britain, Australia and the US CONSPIRED to lie to their people to create the support for a war.
The Constitution of the United States does not authorize the government to lie to the people. The Tenth Amendment prohibits the government from assuming that right for itself. Therefore, when the government lied to the people about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, it acted both unconstitutionally, and hence illegally. In lying to the people, the government has delegitimized itself and ceased to be the legal government of this land, for no government can claim to be legal when it acts illegally. The government can no longer claim to rule with the consent of the governed, because no voter ever consented to be lied to.
An Australian scientist involved in the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq today said the CIA censored his reporting so that it suggested the weapons existed.
He also accused the head of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee of wanting to to make the report “sexier.”
Rod Barton, a microbiologist who worked for Australian intelligence for more than 20 years, told Australian TV he quit the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) in disgust at the censorship of its interim report presented to the US Congress in March last year.
“We left the impression that, yes, maybe there were ... WMD out there,” Barton said. “So I thought it was dishonest.”
Barton, an experienced weapons hunter who joined the UN search for Saddam Hussein’s illicit arsenal in 1991, said the censorship in the US investigation began after Charles Duelfer became the new head of ISG in February 2004.
Barton said Duelfer wanted “a different style of report altogether” which he had discussed with President George Bush and the CIA.
Barton said the report was to have no conclusions.
“I said to him, ’I believe it’s dishonest,”’ Barton said. “If we know certain things and we’re asked to provide a report, we should say what we found and what we haven’t found and put that in the report.”
Duelfer’s staff and senior CIA staff had stipulated what ”politically difficult” information could not be included in the report, Barton said.
The ISG was allowed to mention a find of aluminium pipes but were not allowed to mention that their probable intended use was not nuclear.
The pipes had earlier been publicly described as likely components for centrifuges to be used for nuclear enrichment and were highlighted by the US-led coalition of the willing in the case for war against Iraq.
The report was not allowed to mention two trailers held at the ISG camp which the CIA had previously labelled mobile biological weapon laboratories, Barton said.
“They were nothing to do with biology,” he said. “We believed that they were hydrogen generators.”
He added, “Charles’ attitude was he did not want to inspect them or know. Then he could genuinely say to Washington that he doesn’t know what they are for.”
Barton said the draft report was circulated to Washington and London.
Duelfer refused a request from John Scarlett, chairman of the United Kingdom’s Joint Intelligence Committee, to include new elements, Barton said, without saying what the new elements were.
“Both Washington and London wanted other things put in and to make it – I can only use these words – to make it sexier,” Barton said.
Barton said he quit immediately after the report was completed and stated in his resignation letter that it was because the process was dishonest.
This proves that the claim that Iraq had WMDs was not an "intelligence oversight" but an intentionally crafted deception. In other words, the governments of Britain, Australia and the US CONSPIRED to lie to their people to create the support for a war.
The Constitution of the United States does not authorize the government to lie to the people. The Tenth Amendment prohibits the government from assuming that right for itself. Therefore, when the government lied to the people about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, it acted both unconstitutionally, and hence illegally. In lying to the people, the government has delegitimized itself and ceased to be the legal government of this land, for no government can claim to be legal when it acts illegally. The government can no longer claim to rule with the consent of the governed, because no voter ever consented to be lied to.