CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY on 935 US Government lies re Iraq: "The Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003"

Center for Public Integrity (2014 Pullitzer Prize-winning US organization dedicated to truth-telling and famous for collating 935 Bush Administration lies about Iraq between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq) - Center for Public Integrity founder Charles “Chuck” Lewis ( author of "935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline of America’s Moral Integrity") on the founding of The Center for Public Integrity in 1989: “My dream was a kind of journalistic utopia… an investigative milieu in which no one would tell me who or what not to investigate and in which the final story would be unfettered by time and space limitations, and untrammeled by the power of corporate or government interests bent on burying the truth” (Bill Buzenberg, “Finding the truth in 935 lies about war with Iraq”, Center for Public Integrity, 20 June 2014: https://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/06/20/14975/finding-truth-935-lies-about-war-iraq ).

Media-complicit 935 lies told by Bush Administration re Iraq (from 9-11 to invasion of Iraq) as reported by CNN (2008): “President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," reads an overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism. According to the study, Bush and seven top officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- made 935 false statements about Iraq during those two years. The study was based on a searchable database compiled of primary sources, such as official government transcripts and speeches, and secondary sources -- mainly quotes from major media organizations” (“Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war”, CNN, 24 January 2008: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/23/bush.iraq/ ).