Colin Powell and the âThe Sloppy Dossierâ: Plagiarism and âFake Intelligenceâ Used to Justify the 2003 War on Iraq: Copied and Pasted from the Internet into an âOfficialâ British Intel Report
Colin Powellâs âintelligence reportâ presented to the UN Security Council in early February 2003 was FABRICATED. It was copied and pasted from the internet by members of Tony Blairâs staff.
While the Chilcot Inquiry report was released in 2016, it is worth noting that most of the dodgy dossier evidence pertaining to Tony Blair and George W, Bush was available before the onset of the Iraq war in March 2003.
Fake intelligence as well as plagiarized quotations had been slipped into an official intelligence report pertaining to Iraqâs WMD presented to the UN Security Council by Secretary of State Colin Powell on February 5, 2003.
Damning evidence refuting Colin Powellâs official intelligence report was revealed by Cambridge Lecturer Dr. Glen Rangwala (image right) on Britainâs Channel 4 TV on February 6, 2003, on the day following Secretary of State Colin Powellâs historic Iraq WMD presentation to the UN Security Council:
âI would call my colleaguesâ attention to the fine paper that the United Kingdom distributed . . . which describes in exquisite detail Iraqi deception activities.â (Colin Powell, UN Security Council, February 5, 2003)
Powell was referring to âIraq Its Infrastructure Of Concealment, Deception And Intimidationâ, published on January 30, 2003.
According to Rangwala, the British intelligence document was fake. It had not been prepared by British intelligence. It was copied and pasted from the internet by members of Tony Blairâs staff:
The Downing Street authors state they drew âupon a number of sources, including intelligence materialâ (p.1, first sentence). In fact, they copied material from at least three different authors and gave no credit to them. Indeed, they plagiarized, directly cutting and pasting or near quoting.
A close textual analysis suggests that the UK authors had little access to first-hand intelligence sources and instead based their work on academic papers, which they selectively distorted. Some of the papers used were considerably out of date. This leads the reader to wonder about the reliability and veracity of the Downing Street document.
It was a fake document prepared on the instructions of prime minister Blair with a view to building a âcredibleâ justification to wage war on Iraq.
Rangwalaâs analysis was more than a smoking gun. It revealed the Big Lie. It invalidated Colinâs Powellâs presentation to the UN Security Council. It had to be suppressed.
In many regards, the Rangwala revelation was far more important than the leak of the Secret July 2002 Downing Street Memo:
C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regimeâs record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/plagiarism-british-intelligence-iraq-dossier-relied-on-recycled-academic-articles/513