Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored? ........Well Duh!

[babsbunny]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/03/pentagon-report.html

March 12, 2008 1:58 PM

ABC News' Jonathan Karl Reports: The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report's release and will no longer make the report available online.

The report was to be posted on the Joint Forces Command website this afternoon, followed by a background briefing with the authors. No more. The report will be made available only to those who ask for it, and it will be sent via U.S. mail from Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia.

It won't be emailed to reporters and it won't be posted online.

Asked why the report would not be posted online and could not be emailed, the spokesman for Joint Forces Command said: "We're making the report available to anyone who wishes to have it, and we'll send it out via CD in the mail."

Another Pentagon official said initial press reports on the study made it "too politically sensitive."

[bananas]

1. "Read the report's executive summary HERE."

From the article:
"ABC News obtained the comprehensive military study of Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism on Tuesday. Read the report's executive summary HERE."
"HERE" is a link to a 100k pdf: http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/Saddam%20and%20Terrorism%20Redaction%20EXSUM%20Extract.pdf
Sounds like abcnews already has the full report.
Any congressman should be able to post the report on their own official house/senate website.

[magellan]

2. That link leads to a short redacted extract

And not a very informative one, aside from the speculation drawn from documents that aren't supplied. Apart from stating that there was no "smoking gun" linking Hussein to al-Qaeda, it does a good job of muddying the waters after that. Much like BushCo have done.

What did it say in its original form is the question.