Cyber-Campaign Demands Congress Censure Bush: "''This country is now going through the worst intelligence scandal in its history'', said Melvin Goodman, a former top CIA analyst who teaches at the National Defense University here.
Calling the administration's allegations about Hussein's alleged WMD programs and ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist group a ''campaign of deceit'', he charged that the Office of Special Plans (OSP) established by Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, ''was engaged in falsifying intelligence information'' that was then leaked to the press and sent via Cheney's office to the White House.
''The reasons we were given for going to war were false'', added Larry Johnson, a career CIA officer who served as deputy director of the State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism in the 1990s.
''The Bush administration engaged in a deliberate campaign of information warfare, which employed erroneous and misleading information as part of a broader strategy to build public opinion for an invasion'', he said."
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