Defense Department Inspector General Report Says Pentagon Cooked the Books for War

Brian Zick

Robert Burns for AP reports: WASHINGTON - A "very damning" report by the Defense Department's inspector general depicts a Pentagon that purposely manipulated intelligence in an effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaida in the runup to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, says the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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