… to support the narrative of Iraq's alleged WMDs, and to support the narrative of Iraq's alleged ties to Al Qaeda, neither of which actually existed. So in response to this, James Clapper ordered his agency to create images that Colin Powell then went on to use to support their alleged WMD narrative. And in James Clapper's words, we were, quote, so eager to help that we found what wasn't really there, end of quote. We've seen other examples, those that we know of. (05:30–05:38)
CLAIM
Asserts that James Clapper ordered the creation of images used by Colin Powell to support the WMD narrative.
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