Rumsfeld quietly shelved a 2002 report undermining Bush administration's claims about Iraq's WMDs

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/25/1474826/-Rumsfeld-quietly-shelved-a-2002-report-undermining-Bush-administration-s-claims-about-Iraq-s-WMDs

Turns out, according to Politico’s John Walcott, there were some known unknowns and some unknown unknowns that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld knew about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction in September 2002. And he didn’t share those with others in the run-up to war.

In August 2002, Rumsfeld had asked Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, head of the Joint Staff’s intelligence directorate, for a report on Iraq’s WMDs. Although the report was declassified in 2011 and posted on Rumsfeld’s website then, it has not previously garnered any attention.

The eight-page September 2, 2002, document, titled “Status of Iraq’s WMD Programs,” was passed along to Rumsfeld by Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time. The general noted in his two-sentence cover memo to Rumsfeld, “It is big.”

The report appeared on Rumsfeld’s desk right in the middle of the administration’s effort to “educate” the public about what it claimed was a serious threat from Iraq. The report noted that “We’ve struggled to estimate the unknowns [...] Our knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based largely—perhaps 90%—on analysis of imprecise intelligence.”

[malaise]

1. Our planet will never be safe until the war criminals

are incarcerated

[Faux pas]

2. Kickin'

[bullwinkle428]

3. Once again - why aren't these assholes doing time?

K&R.

[JEB]

4. The feds need to make a move on these criminal assholes.

And the media needs to stop its campaign of silence.

[tabasco]

5. Lawyers get disbarred and charged with crimes for hiding evidence

I guess it's no big deal if you hide evidence to start a war and kill tens of thousands of people.