Democratic Senator Carl Levin has announced plans to continue to investigate how dubious intelligence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11 attacks became part of the justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. On Friday, the Pentagon’s inspector general accused former Pentagon official Douglas Feith of inappropriately manipulating intelligence on Iraq. Feith appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Douglas Feith: “Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda. It’s just not correct. I mean, words matter. And — and people are throwing around loose allegations, vague allegations based on not reading the words carefully.”
Chris Wallace: “I’m just taking comments from your PowerPoint. You said some indications of possible Iraqi coordination with al-Qaeda specifically related to 9/11. You said that the Atta meeting in Prague 2001 was a known contact.”
Douglas Feith: “The people who did that briefing were taking the position that the intelligence community took originally. The CIA later changed its views on that meeting, after the time relevant here.”