Barton Claims Another Iraq Survey Group Member Resigned Over Interference by Coalition Members

Australian microbiologist Rod Barton yesterday said he was not the only representative from his nation to resign in frustration last year from the Iraq Survey Group, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today (see GSN, Feb. 14).

Barton has said he left the U.S.-led weapons search team after the CIA censored his findings to make it appear in a March 2004 interim report that Iraq might have possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Testifying before an Australian Senate committee, Barton said another team member resigned shortly before he did, also in frustration over meddling by British and U.S. authorities. The team member was not identified (Tom Allard, Sydney Morning Herald, March 29).

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