Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has accused George W. Bush of lying in his recently-published memoir, Decision Points. Mr. Bush wrote in the book that on January 31, 2002, during an meeting in the Oval Office, he told Mr. Schroeder that he was determined to make diplomacy with Iraq work, but if those efforts failed, he would invade Iraq. Mr. Bush quotes Mr. Schroeder as responding, "What is true of Afghanistan is true of Iraq. Nations that sponsor terror must face consequences. If you make it fast and decisive, I will be with you." Mr. Bush wrote that Mr. Schroeder was guilty of betraying him on that count, because Germany opposed war in favor of continued inspections for weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Schroeder responded to the passage in Mr. Bush's memoir by saying that Mr. Bush did not tell him the truth. Mr. Schreoder confirms that he told Mr. Bush that he would "stand reliably on the side of the U.S." if it was confirmed that Iraq was sheltering the terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 attacks. "But this link, as it became clear during 2002, was false and contrived," Mr. Schroeder says. "This goes for the reasons [for the invasion] given by Bush and Cheney too ... As we know today, the Bush administration's reasons for the Iraq war were based on lies."

Greenpeace filed a federal lawsuit against Dow Chemical and Sasol North America (an energy and chemical company) alleging that the two companies, together with their public relations firms Dezenhall Resources and Ketchum, engaged in spying and other "clandestine and unlawful" actions aimed at undermining the group's anti-pollution efforts against the chemical industry. Greenpeace reports that the defendants' illicit activities included hacking computer and physical security codes, illegally recording phone calls, employing fake volunteers to act as undercover "moles" who spied at the homes and offices of Greenpeace leaders, and stealing thousands of confidential documents from Greenpeace, including employee records, donor and media lists. The suit also alleges that agents for the defendant companies broke into Greenpeace offices, acquired confidential phone records and infiltrated a community group in Louisiana to conduct surveillance. The suit names the private security firm Beckett Brown International (BBI) as the company that hired former executives to spy on Greenpeace between 1998 and 2000. BBI records, including intelligence reports, indicate that agents for BBI trolled through Greenpeace's privately-secured garbage dumpsters at least 120 times. The suit says that since BBI sought to destroy records pertaining to its spying exploits, the full scope of activities against Greenpeace is unknown.