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Administration Credibility

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photoThe Bush administration cited the imminent threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction as justification for war. The weapons are still missing and accusations of cooked intelligence reports abound. WMD, administration lies and the new political cost of war.

Guests:

Jonathan Marcus, BBC military defense correspondent

Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and deputy director of the US State Department Office of Counterterrorism from 1989 to 1993

Richard Betts, professor of war and peace studies and director of the Program in International Security Policy at Columbia University and adjunct senior fellow in National Security Studies with the Council on Foreign Relations

Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly

This program aired on June 5, 2003.

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