In America, the wife of the former ambassador who exposed George Bush's sixteen-word State-of-the-Union fib about uranium from Niger, is now being harassed by allies of the Administration. In Britain, the scientist who blew the whistle on Tony Blair has been driven to suicide.

For all of us who, thanks to these whistle-blowers, now realize that we have been hoodwinked and want to understand exactly how, national security analyst John Prados has compiled and annotated the key source documents behind the selling of the Iraq war to the American public. As these CIA reports, Pentagon briefings, and other materials clearly show, Bush and his spokespeople were playing a crude game of three-card monte, claiming Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda, weapons of mass destruction, and imminent threats, which are here exposed as half-truths, exaggerations, and outright fabrications of a war-mongering administration.

Prados, a noted historian of intelligence and national security, offers readers a first-hand view of incontrovertible evidence that we were had.

Documents include

• 1995 CIA debriefing of Iraqi defector and former weapons chief Hussein Kamel
• October 2002 CIA White Paper/intelligence estimate
• October 2002 letter from CIA Director George Tenet to Senator Bill Graham
• December 2002 State Department/CIA "Fact Sheet"
• February 2003 text of Colin Powell's speech to the UN Security Council
• May 2003 CIA Paper on biological warfare production plants
• June 2003 Pentagon press briefing