Online References on Iraq Planning and Lying

Newly-available documents detailing the early work of the "Future of Iraq Project," the U.S. State Department's massive planning effort for post-regime change Iraq, have been posted online by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute. The new documents "provide a behind-the-scenes look at the formation of 17 working groups consisting of 'free' Iraqis and experts, 14 of which met throughout 2002 and early 2003 to plan for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq," according to the National Security Archive. "The first planning meeting with Iraqis took place at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. from April 9-10, 2002." In other Iraq news, Mother Jones magazine has launched "Lie by Lie," a timeline seeking to answer the question, "What did our leaders know and when did they know it?" The online reference currently covers from August 1990 to March 2003.