Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel

February 9, 2007
Report Says Pentagon Manipulated Intel

He cited Gimble's findings that Feith's office was, despite doubts expressed by the intelligence
community, pushing conclusions that Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had met an Iraqi intelligence officer in Prague five months before the attack, and that there were "multiple areas of
cooperation" between Iraq and al-Qaida, including shared pursuit of weapons of mass
destruction.

"That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to
go to war," Levin said in an interview Thursday. He said the Pentagon's work, "which was wrong,
which was distorted, which was inappropriate … is something which is highly disturbing."