Woodrow Wilson: "An Invisible Empire Has Been Set up Above the Forms of Democracy!

We have an empire of lies: "Curveball" was the CIA code-name for an Iraqi exile, Rafeed al-Janabi. Eight years ago, Janabi made the US invasion of Iraq possible. His testimony bolstered claims by the Bush Administration that Iraq's president, Saddam Hussein, had developed an advanced program producing "weapons of mass destruction". Curveball's account included the details of mobile biological weapons trucks, presented by Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, to the United Nations in early 2003. Powell's apparently compelling case on WMD was used to justify the US attack on Iraq a few weeks later. Eight years later, "Curveball" revealed to the Guardian, that he had fabricated the story of Saddam's WMD back in 2000, shortly after his arrival in Germany to seek asylum. He told the paper he had lied to German intelligence in the hope his testimony might help to topple Saddam. Several disturbing facts emerged from his report: One was that the German authorities had quickly proven his account of Iraq's WMD to be false. Both British and German intelligence had travelled to Dubai to meet Bassil Latif, his former boss at Iraq's Military Industries Commission. Dr. Latif had proven that "Curveball's" claims could not be true.