WASHINGTON - August 2 - WHO: Greg Thielmann, former State Department advisor on the Iraqi threat

WHAT: Insider look at U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq

WHEN: August 3, 2004 @ 7:00pm

WHERE: St. Catherine's, 1150 28th St. (off University Ave, across from Drake University), Des Moines, Iowa

Sponsored by Iowa American Friends Service Committee and 20/20 Vision

About Speaker and Event:

Born in Des Moines in 1950, Greg Thielmann is a 25-year veteran of the US foreign service who was in charge of the State Department’s intelligence office before the Iraq war. He advised Secretary of State Colin Powell on the Iraqi threat until he retired in September 2002. And now he is advising the American public—that Iraq was not an “imminent threat” to America, and that the world is less safe today than before the war. Featured on “60 Minutes,” Thielmann will go farther than the Senate Intelligence Committee findings or the 9/11 Commission report in explaining the Iraq intelligence debacle.

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