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'''Editing Near East and South Asia''' Bureau under [[Douglas Feith]] worked with the [[Office of Special Plans]] to provided the intelligence used to manufacture the case for war against Iraq. NESA was led by the [[neocon]] [[William Luti]]. According to Jim Lobe:

:Retired intelligence officials from the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have long charged that the two offices exaggerated and manipulated intelligence about Iraq before passing it along to the White House.{{ref|lobe}}

==References==

#{{note|lobe}} Jim Lobe, [http://www.antiwar.com/ips/lobe080703.html Pentagon Office Home to Neo-Con Network], ''Inter Press Service'', August 7, 2003