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CHENEY ARTICLE II. MAKING FALSE REPRESENTATIONS (1) Manipulating Intelligence He conspired with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to create an agency inside the Pentagon known as the Office of Special Plans, whose director reported to the Office of the Vice President, and which reviewed the intelligence on Iraq in order to suppress intelligence dissenting from and forward intelligence that could support these and other assertions made by Vice President Cheney: (A) December 9, 2001: “Mohamed Atta, who was the lead hijacker, did apparently travel to Prague on a number of occasions. And on at least one occasion, we have reporting that places him in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official a few months before the attack on the World Trade Center.” (B) March 17,2002: “We know they have chemical and biological weapons.” (C) August 26, 2002: “We know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons … Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” (D) December 2, 2002: “His regime has had high-level contacts with Al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to Al Qaeda terrorists.” And when intelligence reports by the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the State Department, the Department of Energy and other government had discredited these claims in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Richard Bruce Cheney persisted in making these assertions with the intent to misinform the people and their representatives in Congress in order to gain their support for the invasion of Iraq.
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