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State Dept. Expert: Bolton Pressured Him to Distort Evidence

NY Times reports: "A top State Department expert on chemical and
biological weapons told Congressional committees in closed-door hearings
last week that he had been pressed to tailor his ****ysis on Iraq and
other matters to conform with the Bush administration's views, several
Congressional officials said today... the senior intelligence expert,
identified by several officials as Christian Westermann, became the
first member of the intelligence community on active service to make
this sort of admission to members of Congress. In a second hearing last
week with the Senate Intelligence Committee, he made it clear that he
had felt pressure from John Bolton, the under secretary of state for
arms control and international security, that originally dated to a
clash the two had over Mr. Bolton's public assertions last year that
Cuba had a biological weapons program. Mr. Westermann argued those
assertions were not supported by sufficient intelligence."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/international/worldspecial/25INTE.html