2005 Report Critical of Iraq War Suppressed

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In 2004, RAND Corporation was asked by the U.S. Army to analyse the planning of the war in Iraq and reconstruction efforts. Eighteen months later, RAND Corporation submitted both a classified and unclassified version of the report, called "Rebuilding Iraq." A news story from Feb. 11th tells how the report was virtually dismissed by the Army:

As the RAND study went through drafts, a chapter was written to emphasize the implications for the Army. An unclassified version was produced with numerous references to newspaper articles and books, an approach that was intended to facilitate publication.

Senior Army officials were not happy with the results, and questioned whether all of the information in the study was truly unclassified and its use of newspaper reports. RAND researchers sent a rebuttal. That failed to persuade the Army to allow publication of the unclassified report, and the classified version was not widely disseminated throughout the Pentagon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/washington/11army.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

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