Scott Ritter on today's "Democracy Now": How MI6 led nation into war

[CatWoman]

How the British Spy Agency MI6 Secretly Mislead A Nation Into War With Iraq


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/30/1441259

[MysticMind]

1. did he solicit sex from any minors?

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[liberalnurse]

2. No, no ,no, and no.....

That was a Rovian attack. They needed to shut his mouth as they could not plan an accident fast enough.

Was that question really worthy?

[Terwilliger]

5. is that poster worthy?

that's the question

[ConsAreLiars]

3. some excerpts (folks should read, listen to, or watch this interview)

Ritter gives us a very good insight into just how these things work.

Some quotes.
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SCOTT RITTER: ... I was approached by the British intelligence service, which I had, again, a long relationship with, of an official nature, to see if there was any information in the archives of UNSCOM that could be handed to the British, so that they could in turn work it over, determine its veracity, and then seek to plant it in media outlets around the world, in an effort to try to shape the public opinion of those countries, and then indirectly, through, for instance, a report showing up in the Polish press, shape public opinion in Great Britain and the United States.
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An example of how the Unnamed Source gets used aainst truthtellers:
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AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Scott Ritter, who is a former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, who says that in 1997, 1998, he worked with the MI-6, with Operation Mass Appeal. A spokesperson speaking on behalf of the British spy agency told BBC News Online: “The allegation that Ritter was using MI-6 material is unfounded.” Your response to that?

SCOTT RITTER: Well, it's absurd in the extreme. The allegation that I was using MI-6 material. First of all: what allegation that I was using MI-6? In regards to Mass Appeal, the statement of fact that I put forward is that UNSCOM provided data to MI-6, which then MI-6 used in the press. That's no longer unfounded. The British Government has acknowledged this. They have acknowledged the existence of Operation Mass Appeal and its role in, you know, serving as a conduit of propaganda information to the media.
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And the next step?
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SCOTT RITTER: Again, and this is what I have told the British, and I'll say it right now. What needs to happen, isn’t for Scott Ritter to pull out one or two examples and give it you to or anyone else. What needs to happen, happened. The British Government acknowledged now that their intelligence service, their secret intelligence service, was involved, contrary to the public statements of the MI-6 Chief to Lord Hutton's inquiry involved in a propaganda campaign designed to shape public opinion. So what needs to happen is, rather than me continuing to snipe from the edge, now that the government has acknowledged this, there must be an inquiry in which MI-6 is required to put all of its files. Don't ask me what MI-6 was doing. Ask MI-6. Demand that the files be put before the British Parliament. Demand that the people understand the totality of this propaganda campaign. Was this propaganda campaign disinformation? Did the British intelligence service deliberately plant data which they knew was unsustainable, unverifiable - data which they couldn't back up with anything else? This is the key of the question. Not to come back to the man who's trying to do his best to expose the truth by saying, “Give us specific examples.” I can do that, and I have told the British Parliament, that if you want to have an inquiry and call me before you, I will testify under oath about this; but right now, the pressure should be put on the British Government to provide the data, not on other individuals.
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[Ilsa]

4. I was sent an email on this.

I think the article was from the UK Sunday Times. Could find the original, so I didn't want to post without a source.