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The Bush hackministration publicly asserted that two trailers captured by US troops in Iraq in May 2003 were mobile "biological laboratories" even after US intelligence officials had evidence that they were just Iraqi redneck housing. On May 29, 2003, President George W. Bush hailed the capture of the trailers, declaring "We have found the weapons of mass destruction".
But, wait for it, a Pentagon-sponsored fact-finding mission had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. The group's unanimous findings had been sent to the Pentagon in a field report, two days before the president's statement. The 3-page field report, and a 122-page final report three weeks later, were classified and shelved.
On June 8, 2003, an unnamed senior CIA official stood by the interpretation that the trailers were mobile bioweapons labs saying “It is what we think it is, to the best of our knowledge”.
Then Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed in June 2003 that “confidence level is increasing” that the trailers were intended for biological weapons production.
White House speaker Scott McClellan said on July 16, 2003, that “We’ve seen some of the evidence of his weapons of mass destruction program through two mobile biological weapon labs that have been discovered.”
Vice President Dick Cheney claimed in September 2003 that the trailers were “mobile biological facilities”.
Then CIA director George Tenet claimed in a speech on February 5, 2004, that the trailers “could maybe be made to work as a story ” as biological weapons labs.
When asked why the secret report was not made public earlier McClellan responded by saying that “it takes a substantial amount of time to coordinate and run through a declassification process”. Unless you say something we don't like...