Weapons of mass destruction

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What was an Iraqi politician doing at CIA headquarters just days before he distributed a fake memo incriminating Saddam Hussein in 9/11?
By Joe Conason Aug 8, 2008

  • Forging the missing case for war

    In further chronicles of Bush government deceit, author Ron Suskind drops a bombshell: The White House ordered the CIA to fake a letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida.
    By Louis Bayard August 6, 2008

  • Writing through the rubble

    While clouds of destruction hang over Iraq, a set of new books sheds light on how America bungled the war, and on the hope that lingers in small Iraqi towns.
    By Salon staff March 21, 2008

  • How the press failed on Iraq

    A hard look back at the past five years -- with all its death and destruction and missteps -- reveals that the American media has been sleepwalking through the war.
    By Greg Mitchell March 11, 2008

  • An Iran bombshell for Bush

    The White House knew months ago about Iran's stalled nuclear program. But Bush and Cheney have kept up the war rhetoric.
    By Mark Follman December 5, 2007

  • The man who sold the war

    "Curveball" author Bob Drogin talks about the Iraqi defector responsible for much of the CIA's bogus prewar intelligence about Iraqi WMD.
    By Alex Koppelman October 16, 2007

  • Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

    Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
    By Sidney Blumenthal September 6, 2007

  • What George Tenet really knew about Iraq

    Unraveling the former CIA chief's cover story about bogus intelligence -- and the grand scheme that launched the war.
    By Thomas Powers July 2, 2007

  • Secrets and lies

    As the White House fights to keep a WMD report hidden, a new poll shows that 41 percent of the public still believes Saddam had a hand in 9/11.
    By Tim Grieve June 25, 2007

  • George Tenet, spook for all seasons

    The former CIA chief seems strangely oblivious that his self-serving defense is shredding the remains of his reputation.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 3, 2007

  • But first, I'll be buying some shoes

    A subpoena from the House of Representatives? Condoleezza Rice can't be bothered
    By Tim Grieve April 26, 2007

  • How Libby became Cheney's pawn

    The vice president knew the intelligence for the Iraq war was cooked. So he launched his aide to smear the man who took the information public.
    By Sidney Blumenthal February 1, 2007

  • The seven deadly sinners of the Scooter trial

    Jury selection begins today in the case of former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis Libby. But are any of the players in this scandal worth rooting for?
    By Jonathan Turley January 16, 2007

  • North Korea fallout

    Kim Jong Il's nuclear test could set off a new arms race in Asia. Yet the White House has no viable plan for stopping the global spread of nukes.
    By Joseph Cirincione October 10, 2006

  • Killing the CIA

    In Goss, Bush found the perfect hatchet man to take vengeance on a despised agency. Now Goss is gone, scandal looms -- and the CIA is ruined.
    By Sidney Blumenthal May 11, 2006

  • Spooked by red tape

    Who's bungling U.S. intelligence reform -- Bush's new spymaster, or the politicians who designed his job?
    By Michael Scherer April 21, 2006

  • The slow-motion trap

    His presidency was built on secrecy and, we now know, on lies. The more Bush struggles to free himself, the more his past deceptions bind him.
    By Sidney Blumenthal April 13, 2006

  • Bush's bogus document dump

    The administration seeded its new public archive of Iraq documents with jihadist materials completely unrelated to Saddam.
    By Fritz Umbach April 13, 2006

  • Mobile weapons labs? They didn't tell the truth about those, either

    Even after a team of experts concluded that Iraqi trailers weren't suitable for weapons use, the Bush administration continued to insist that they were.
    By Tim Grieve April 12, 2006

  • The deception Bush can't spin

    Libby's testimony shows that Bush disclosed national secrets for political gain -- and makes Bush's statements about finding the leaker ludicrous.
    By Joe Conason April 7, 2006

  • "Saddam chose to deny inspectors"

    Bush repeated this bald-faced lie recently. The cowering press still lets him get away with it, but the public is no longer fooled.
    By Joe Conason March 31, 2006

  • Bush is vindicated on Iraq -- or not

    Tapes suggest Iraqi regime had WMD factories "in the mind."
    By Tim Grieve March 13, 2006

  • Colonel of truth

    Former Bush insider Lawrence Wilkerson blasts Dick Cheney's "paranoia" -- and says Cheney and Rumsfeld are to blame for Abu Ghraib.
    By Mark Follman February 27, 2006

  • Countdown to the Iranian bomb

    A top proliferation expert says the real danger isn't a nuclear attack by Iran, but a Middle East arms race.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory January 26, 2006

  • The yes man and the thug

    In his disturbing new book, Times reporter James Risen reveals how George Tenet's gutless surrender to war-obsessed Donald Rumsfeld led to the total breakdown of U.S. intelligence.
    By Farhad Manjoo January 10, 2006
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