The White House in 2003 deliberately ignored the intelligence data on Iraq

The US administration on the eve of the war with Iraq in 2003 deliberately ignored the reliable intelligence data on the state of Iraqi weapons, since they contradicted political plans to change the regime of Saddam Hussein. The former high -ranking CIA employee who oversaw the operations in Europe, Tyler Dramheller, made such accusations against the White House.

In an interview with CBS, which will be shown in the Sunday program "60 minutes", he stated that officials of the American administration have repeatedly and consciously made decisions contrary to the data and estimates that the US intelligence services, reports on the New York Times on Saturday.

In particular, according to Dramheller, who at that time, the post of director of the CIA, George Tenete, informed US President George Bush and vice president Richard Cheney about the data received from the Foreign Minister of Iraq Naji Sabri about the lack of active developments in the field of weapons of mass destruction.

According to ex-employee Langley, the Iraqi minister was a paid agent of American intelligence. Despite this, the information of the tennet was not taken into account by the administration’s leadership, and three days later the White House informed the CIA about plans to start a war with Iraq.

To the question: "But what about our intelligence?" The answer followed: "The matter is no longer in intelligence, the point is the need to change the regime," the New York Times reports.

According to the representative of CBS Kevin Tedesko, who is referred by the newspaper, Dramheller said that this episode took place six months before the start of the war, approximately in the plate of 2002.

The representative of the CIA Paul Dzhimilyano said that Dramheller is just a former employee of the department who "expresses his personal views and these views are not the official opinion of the Central Intelligence Directorate."