Ex-CIA Aide Reveals New Details On Ignored Warnings Of Iraqi WMD Fabricator Curveball...

Ex-CIA Aide Reveals New Details On Ignored Warnings Of Iraqi WMD Fabricator Curveball...

In late January 2003, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepared to argue the Bush administration's case against Iraq at the United Nations, veteran CIA officer Tyler Drumheller sat down with a classified draft of Powell's speech to look for errors. He found a whopper: a claim about mobile biological labs built by Iraq for germ warfare.

Drumheller instantly recognized the source, an Iraqi defector suspected of being mentally unstable and a liar. The CIA officer took his pen, he recounted in an interview, and crossed out the whole paragraph.

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