Administration keeps Iraq secrets. (Insider Report).(United Nations report of Iraq's weapons missing key pieces; United States removed information from document to protect power elite)

"The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose' observed Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. In the spirit of the Bard's grudging acknowledgement, we take notice of an article in the March/April issue of The Humanist entitled, "What Bush Didn't Want You to Know About Iraq."

Last fall, the Bush administration accused Iraq of filing an incomplete weapons declaration to the United Nations. "In a way, the Bush folks were telling the truth," observes Humanist contributor Michael I. Niman. "The UN report as distributed was missing key pieces of information about Iraq's weapons programs. But that's because the United States removed over 8,000 pages of information from the 11,800 page document before passing it on. The missing pages implicated twenty-four U.S.-based corporations and the successive Ronald Reagan and George Bush [the elder] administrations in connection with the illegal supplying of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government with myriad weapons of mass destruction and the training to use them."

"In addition to biological and chemical weapons components such as anthrax, various U.S. government agencies -- including the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and ...