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Newsbits: Distortion of evidence, Faith Bias (as if we didn't know)
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Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:57:18 GMT
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Chief U.N. inspectors criticizes U.S. for insisting Iraq has weapons
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/030624/w062416.html
“It is sort of puzzling I think that you can have 100 per cent certainty about
the weapons of mass destruction’s existence, and zero certainty about where they
are,” he said. “We were more prudent in our assessment and I think that was
shown to be pretty wise.”
Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/international/worldspecial/25INTE.html?pagewanted=print&position=
WASHINGTON, June 24 - A top State Department expert on chemical and biological
weapons told Congressional committees in closed-door hearings last week that he
had been pressed to tailor his analysis on Iraq and other matters to conform
with the Bush administration’s views, several Congressional officials said
today.
The officials described what they said was a dramatic moment at a House
Intelligence Committee hearing last week when the weapons expert came forward to
tell Congress he had felt such pressure.
By speaking out, they said, the senior intelligence expert, identified by
several officials as Christian Westermann, became the first member of the
intelligence community on active service to make this sort of admission to
members of Congress.
The House Intelligence Committee was examining questions concerning the Bush
administration’s handling of prewar reports on evidence that Iraq had illegal
weapons and ties to terrorist groups.
Mr. Westermann, officials said, is an analyst in the State Department’s Bureau
of Intelligence and Research, a small but important office at the State
Department that is intended to provide the secretary of state with intelligence
analysis independent of the C.I.A. and other agencies.
Mr. Westermann told lawmakers last week that while he felt pressure, he never
actually changed the wording of any of his intelligence reports.
White House Launches Crusade To Promote Taxpayer-Funded Job Bias
http://www.au.org/press/pr030624a.htm
The Bush administration’s heightened campaign to legalize religious
discrimination with public funds is an appalling endorsement of
government-approved job bias, according to Americans United for Separation of
Church and State.
Today the Bush administration is escalating its crusade to persuade Congress and
the public that churches should be allowed to discriminate in employment on
religious grounds when hiring staff for government social service programs. As
part of his “faith- based” initiative, President George W. Bush is seeking to
grant churches an exemption to the civil rights laws that apply to other
government-funded organizations.
-- Hop-Frog
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