The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder--Bush's Helter Skelter to Start War
A Common Dreams article outlines the meat of the case of conspiracy and fraud to "fix the intelligence around the policy" to go to war, implicating also CIA chief George Tenet (who won a Medal of Freedom award) for keeping silent while Bush contradicted the CIA's own National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq:
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent BugliosiIn his first nationally televised address on the Iraqi crisis on October 7, 2002, six days after receiving the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a classified CIA report, President Bush told millions of Americans the exact opposite of what the CIA was telling him -a monumental lie to the nation and the world.
On the evening of October 7, 2002, the very latest CIA intelligence was that Hussein was not an imminent threat to the US This same information was delivered to the Bush administration as early as October 1, 2002, in the NIE, including input from the CIA and 15 other US intelligence agencies. In addition, CIA director George Tenet briefed Bush in the Oval Office on the morning of October 7th.
Preparing its declassified version of the NIE for Congress, which became known as the White Paper, the Bush administration edited the classified NIE document in ways that significantly changed its inference and meaning
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