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Australian Scientist: U.S. Censored WMD Reports

HeadlineFeb 16, 2005

An Australian microbiologist involved in the US search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has come forward to publicly accuse the CIA of censoring his reporting so that it suggested the weapons existed. Rod Barton also accused the head of Britain’s Joint Intelligence Committee of wanting to make the report “sexier.”

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