Fabrication of Evidence Quotes
His larger point was that history is full of erroneous facts for a variety of reasons, and even though a particular historian tries to limit his views to the truth, it is not always possible to know the truth and to assess each claimed fact. Also, as in the sciences, new tools and techniques give us new knowledge and what was ‘true’ yesterday, is often not quite true today or tomorrow.
President George W. Bush, to justify the invasion of Iraq had told the public that the Iraqi regime was developing nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, and had participated in the September 11 attack on the United States by assisting Al Qaeda. It turned out that these statements were false. The administration claimed that their error was well intentioned and the result of faulty intelligence. Opponents claimed that the administration officials knew that they were exaggerating and had pressured the intelligence agencies to create intelligence conclusions that supported their story.
Helms, then Deputy CIA Director, and other CIA witnesses, even though under oath, covered up the fact that they had initiated and failed in a number of attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro which since became public knowledge. There may well have been other CIA motivations for misleading the commission. The fact that they did, as well as the FBI which also was not truthful with the commission, has led credence to all the wild conspiracy theories that people have come up with about the assassination. See {642340}.
