As the country marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a nagging question lingers: Why didn't those in the U.S government—who knew the truth—speak out about the phony intelligence being used by the Bush White House to justify the invasion of Iraq? Yellowcake uranium from Africa? Aluminum tubes for a nuclear weapons program?
Connections between al Qaeda and Saddam? Throughout the U.S. intelligence community, some officials knew that these--and other assertions used to make the case for war--were based on the sketchiest of intelligence, wrong-headed assumptions and fraudulent claims. Yet those officials didn't go public, their doubts recorded only in dissents buried deep inside a classified National Intelligence Estimate that never saw the light of day. In these excerpts from interviews conducted for "Hubris," some of the principals explain why so many remained silent about issues that were so important.
