NEWS> Bush Administration Makes Substantial Portion of Case for Iraq War Using Magazine Articles Plagiarised by the British Government in Their Report
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From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:24:46 -0500 (EST)
NEWS: Bush Administration Makes Substantial Portion of Case for Iraq War
Using Magazine Articles Plagiarised by the British Government in Their Report.
The most stringent intellectual property rights legislation has been
passed by the United States Federal Government in recent years. Now the
Federal Government, to make its case before the United Nations for a war
with Irag over weapons of mass destruction, has used material plagiarized
by the British government from popular and academic periodicals to create
a British government report aimed at strengthening support for the war
effort amongst the British public.
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INTELLIGENCE ASSESSMENT
Britain Admits That Much of Its Report on Iraq Came From Magazines
By SARAH LYALL
February 8, 2003
<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/08/international/europe/08BRIT.html>
LONDON, Feb. 7 The British government admitted today that large sections
of its most recent report on Iraq, praised by Secretary of State Colin L.
Powell as "a fine paper" in his speech to the United Nations on Wednesday,
had been lifted from magazines and academic journals.
But while acknowledging that the 19-page report was indeed a
"pull-together of a variety of sources," a spokesman for Prime Minister
Tony Blair defended it as "solid" and "accurate."
The document, "Iraq: Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and
Intimidation," was posted on No. 10 Downing Street's Web site on Monday.
It was depicted as an up-to-date and unsettling assessment by the British
intelligence services of Iraq's security apparatus and its efforts to hide
its activities from weapons inspectors and to resist international efforts
to force it to disarm.
But much of the material actually came, sometimes verbatim, from several
nonsecret published articles, according to critics of the government's
policy who have studied the documents.
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