The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "As far as I can tell, nobody in the Bush administration has ever paid a price for being wrong. Instead, people are severely punished for telling inconvenient truths. And administration officials have consistently sought to freeze out, undermine or intimidate anyone who might try to check up on their performance."

Yahoo! News - U.S. plans Al Qaeda offensive: "Bush administration, deeply concerned about recent assassination attempts against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf and a resurgence of Taliban forces in neighboring Afghanistan, is preparing a U.S. military offensive that would reach inside Pakistan "

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US inquiry begins into whether traders exploited BSE outbreak: "In Europe, farmers test one in four cattle for BSE but in the US, even after the expansion of its testing programme, only one in 875 will be tested."

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Michael Moore.com : Mike's Message: "I would like to apologize for referring to George W. Bush as a 'deserter.' What I meant to say is that George W. Bush is a deserter, an election thief, a drunk driver, a WMD liar and a functional illiterate."

The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page: "[Bush] administration is engaged in deficit reduction-related program activities"

MSNBC - Exclusive: Cheney and the "Raw" Intelligence: (December 15) "A memo written by a top Washington lobbyist for the controversial Iraqi National Congress raises new questions about the role Vice President Dick Cheney's office played in the run-up to the war in Iraq."

FT.com Home Asia: "Dick Cheney, US vice-president, 'waged a guerrilla war' against attempts by Tony Blair, the British prime minister, to secure United Nations backing for the invasion of Iraq."

Some Iraq Analysts Felt Pressure From Cheney Visits (washingtonpost.com): (June 5) "Vice President Cheney and his most senior aide made multiple trips to the CIA over the past year to question analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration's policy objectives, according to senior intelligence officials. "

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US releases Al-Jazeera cameraman in Iraq. 26/01/2004. ABC News Online: "Suhaib al-Samarrai was released from a detention camp at Baghdad's notorious Abu Gharib prison after coalition officials 'found nothing against him'.

Mr Balout said Mr Samarrai was detained by US forces on November 18"

Iraq's WMD: the big lie? - [Sunday Herald] The key points the intelligence community now wants placing on the record are:
Firstly, there was a problem with Iraq, particularly over the interpretation of the WMD issue. Many said they had been openly sceptical about the presence of WMD in Iraq for years. There was a systematic failure, they believe, in the way intelligence was interpreted. This was because they were under pressure to provide the government with what it wanted, namely that Iraq possessed WMD and that it posed a clear and present danger.
Secondly, they say intelligence was “cherry-picked” about Iraq: that damning intelligence against Iraq was selectively chosen, whilst intelligence assessments, which might have worked against the build-up to war, were sidelined. The government was looking for anything that would cast Iraq in a negative light.
Thirdly, they claim that a political agenda had crept into the work of the intelligence community and they found themselves in the position of taking orders from politicians. When asked if direct lies were told to the British public, the answer was that the intelligence they supplied was one- sided and produced on demand to politicians.