11/20/2005

“Hundreds of Iraqi refugees fled to Germany every month because of its generous benefits, and a handful of them tried to improve their conditions by offering exaggerated intelligence reports. ‘The Iraqis were adept at feeding us what we wanted to hear,’ said an official at the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) [in a Los Angeles Times article on November 20, 2005] who debriefed Iraqi emigres in Germany. ‘Most of it was garbage.’ ”

 – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 248