Australian Broadcasting Corporation FOUR CORNERS
TRANSCRIPT Secrets and Lies
An Australian intelligence insider reveals how key dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were censored, and how his early reports to Canberra about prisoner abuse were ignored.
Date: 15/02/2005
LIZ JACKSON: Rod Barton lives a quiet, low profile life in the outer suburbs of Canberra. Born in England, he came to Australia when he was nine. To his neighbours he's just the bloke who comes and goes a lot, and loves his roses. But Rod Barton worked for Australian Intelligence for over 20 years and, most recently, on contract in Iraq.
ROD BARTON: If someone was brought to me in an orange jumpsuit with a guard with a gun standing behind him. Of course I didn't pull any fingernails out, but I think it's misleading to say that no Australian's involved. I was involved.
LIZ JACKSON: Last year Rod Barton was in Baghdad working for the CIA's special advisor to the Iraq Survey Group. He resigned in disgust when CIA officials censured his reports....
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