Let’s let the liar out himself:

The guy that the administration and the lapdog, pro-war US corporate media like the New York Times pinned their aspirations of invading a sovereign nation over was a total fraud. We already knew this, of course, but now we hear his excuse: he lied for the people of Iraq? Well how did that turn out for them?

More interesting than anything in the video is this revelation from the article:

Janabi claimed he was first exposed as a liar as early as mid-2000, when the BND travelled to a Gulf city, believed to be Dubai, to speak with his former boss at the Military Industries Commission in Iraq, Dr Bassil Latif.

The Guardian has learned separately that British intelligence officials were at that meeting, investigating a claim made by Janabi that Latif’s son, who was studying in Britain, was procuring weapons for Saddam.

That claim was proven false, and Latif strongly denied Janabi’s claim of mobile bioweapons trucks and another allegation that 12 people had died during an accident at a secret bioweapons facility in south-east Baghdad. …

The meetings continued throughout 2002 and it became apparent to Janabi that a case for war was being constructed. He said he was not asked again about the bioweapons trucks until a month before Powell’s speech.

We’ve long known German intelligence officials had conveyed strong reservations about Curveball’s veracity to their US and British counterparts, but now it appears there was actual proof that he was lying. Interesting that the Guardian seems more focused on Janabi himself than the implication that US/UK policymakers were well aware that Janabi was lying.

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