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Friday, 13 February 2004
Blame the spooks, not the kooksDennis
Shanahan gives you this in yesterday’s Australian: AUSTRALIA'S spy agencies can expect an external inquiry into their
handling of intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction within months. The Howard Government is expected to agree to an independent inquiry into
the Australian agencies' assessment of secret reports from US and British
intelligence bodies after a parliamentary committee reports next month. And then today’s
editorial gives you this: AN inquiry into how Australia's intelligence services overestimated
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capability may help ensure no error of
similar magnitude is made again This sort of scapegoating should make professional
propagandists out of journalists on the Australian. As if the intelligence agencies
bent the intel to hype the case for war.
That’s not the way they work.
It’s all part of the Australian’s desperate, unerring plan to
ensure the conservatives remain in power for another three years. Friggin pathetic. |