[IP] Pentagon Cancels Online Iraq Report -- But Here It Is

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein [lauren@vortex.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 9:46 PM
To: David Farber
Cc: lauren@vortex.com
Subject: Pentagon Cancels Online Iraq Report -- But Here It Is

            Pentagon Cancels Online Iraq Report -- But Here It Is

                http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000376.html


Greetings.  The Pentagon abruptly canceled plans to post online a
new report (and also canceled a related background briefing) that
concludes the lack of a link between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and al
Qaeda.

DOD is also now refusing to e-mail out copies of the report, and is
only making it available in physically mailed CD-ROM form upon
request.

In an age when any "good news" about the war in Iraq goes online
immediately from the Pentagon's PR machine, the word is that DOD
decided that this report was too politically sensitive to be made
easily and widely available via the Internet.  Fascinating.

Nevertheless, redacted (obviously scanned) versions of the executive
summary and the main body of this report are already circulating,
and I've saved copies for your edification if you so desire:

Executive Summary (~3.4 MB):
http://lauren.vortex.com/dod-iraq-aq-exsum.pdf

Main Report (~11.7 MB):
http://lauren.vortex.com/dod-iraq-aq.pdf

--Lauren--
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