Colin Luther Powell

George Tenet & John McLaughlin of the CIA gave Powell false intelligence from the interrogations of an unnamed prisoner that there were links between Iraq and Al Qaida. They stated that “a high-level Al Qaida detainee had just revealed under interrogation substantive contacts between Al Qaida and Baghdad, including Iraqis training Al Qaida operatives in the use of chemical and biological weapons”. Wilkerson later said that the source was Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi who recanted after stating that he was just telling the tortures what they wanted to hear.

A internal CIA report from January 2003 (released November 2005) stated that intelligence gathered from the torture of Al-Shaykh Al-Libi about Al Qaeda seeking Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Iraq was true. What the CNN source fails to state is that the this report was written two months before the invasion of Iraq in March, and one month prior to Powell’s endorsement of invading Iraq. Al-Libi recanted the info he gave to invade Iraq two years after being released stating that he said it to stop being tortured.