{"id":45,"date":"2003-07-17T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2003-07-18T04:43:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-17T21:43:16","modified_gmt":"2003-07-18T04:43:16","slug":"whose-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/17\/whose-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose intelligence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/leopold10.html\" title=\"Jason Leopold reveals\">Jason Leopold reveals<\/a> that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/j070903.html\" title=\"Office of Special Plans\">Office of Special Plans<\/a> (OSP), which  &#8220;probe[d] links between Iraq and the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and whether the country was stockpiling a cache of weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; also advised the President to include the <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=544&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20030711\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/us_iraq_tenet\" title=\"uranium claim\">uranium claim<\/a> in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2003\/ALLPOLITICS\/01\/28\/sotu.transcript\/\" title=\"State of the Union speech\">State of the Union speech<\/a>.   &#8220;Staffed mainly by ideological amateurs,&#8221; the OSP, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,2763,999737,00.html\" title=\"writes the <i>Guardian<\/i> (UK)&#8221;>writes the <i>Guardian<\/i> (UK)<\/a>, &#8220;second-guess[ed] CIA information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simply, the hawks produced the &#8220;intelligence&#8221; that suited their ends.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Leopold reveals that the Office of Special Plans (OSP), which &#8220;probe[d] links between Iraq and the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and whether the country was stockpiling a cache of weapons of mass destruction,&#8221; also advised the President to include the uranium claim in his State of the Union speech. &#8220;Staffed mainly by ideological amateurs,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}