ABC Unmasks “Curveball” Four Years Too Late

By Kurt Nimmo
Mar. 15, 2007

ABC News is surprised, simply flabbergasted. In a “special report,” Brian Ross tells us about the Curveball “intelligence failure” and quotes flummoxed officials, including an outraged Collin Powell, who will go down in history as the fool who presented a passel of neocon lies and fairy tales in dog and pony show format before the United Nations, thus providing a transparent pretext to invade Iraq and systematically slaughter more than 650,000 of its citizens.

Back in February, 2003, I was insisting here that Powell’s evidence was little more than Brothers Grimm nonsense designed to scare small children and witless American adults who invariably believe everything the government tells them, no matter the inexhaustible track record of lies and deception stretching far back into history, not that history interests the average American, who is far more captivated by American Idol and Deal Or No Deal.

Ross begins his “report” by characterizing the Curveball story, admitted to be the neocon centerpiece for invasion and mass murder, as little more than an “intelligence failure.” In fact, it was not an intelligence failure, but rather a contrived bit of disinformation planted by the neocons through their “cherry picking” operation at the Office of Special Plans.

Two years after the invasion, Bush slapped together an investigative commission to look into to the Curveball fabrication and placed the blame at the CIA’s doorstep, never mind the CIA described Curveball as “a con artist who drove a taxi in Iraq and spun his engineering knowledge into a fantastic but plausible tale about secret bioweapons factories on wheels,” while German intelligence characterized him as an individual not living in Iraq and as an “out of control” and mentally deranged alcoholic. Of course, the neocon Office of Special Plans was not mentioned as the groom of such obvious nonsense, nor did Brian Ross mention it in his report.

Once again, the neocons get a free pass, a carte blanche, while the corporate media takes us on a wild goose chase. This is particularly important now as the neocons prepare to destroy the next target on their list, Iran. Is it possible, in a year or two, Brian Ross and ABC News will be “reporting” on the bogus and once again wholly transparent propaganda offered by the neocons as evidence of Iranian duplicity and malevolence?

See the ABC segment, ABC’s Brian Ross unmasks ‘Curveball,’ on the Raw Story site.