The Tortured Efforts to Connect al-Qaeda and Iraq

Historian and investigative reporter Andy Worthington comments on testimony given to the Senate Armed Services Committee (read the report) by Maj. Burney, who wrote that

A large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq. The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link … there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results.

Torture to make a case for the Iraq invasion.

Read Andy’s blog entry:

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/04/29/even-in-cheneys-bleak-world-the-al-qaeda-iraq-torture-story-is-a-new-low/