British 'intelligence' lifted from academic articles

[thop]

Downing Street was last night plunged into acute international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the British government's latest dossier on Iraq - allegedly based on "intelligence material" - were taken from published academic articles, some of them several years old.

I bet Tony got a nice call from GWB yesterday

oops. forgot the link: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/forei...890917,00.html

[GNEP]

Haha and I bet the junior researcher putting it all together just did a search on Google and cut-and-pasted from the internet...

Or if they were really dilligent then maybe they used some academic (non-public) search engines...

[3dfx]

If they are going to these lengths then war unfortunately looks immanent atm

[KvHagedorn]

The Guardian.. what do you expect?

[The PIT]

A link containing comparisons.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2736149.stm

Pity it's twelve years old. I wonder what else was copied from old papers in the so called British intelligence.

Also MI5 say theres no links between Dustbin Laden and Soddem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2727471.stm

This echoes what another Iraq expert who advises Mr Blair said a few months ago.

This also caused Tony Blair difficulties in Parliament his reply basically was that was no evidence proving there wasn't a link. It seems an attempt to mislead Parliament.

[GraveTaint]

More of the "evidence" seems to be shown false.

Revealed: truth behind US 'poison factory' claim

You'd think that if they are going to show people evidence that they would at least make a token effort at some kind of credibility. But then I guess they figure that they don't have to...

[The PIT]

This is one of the reasons why so many are against the war. They feel even stronger when Tony Blair struggles to defend the report.

[RedRed]

You cant believe one thing from any side in this phoney stage - it stinks to high heaven!



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