WASHINGTON — A series of cover sheets for intelligence reports written for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials during the early days of the war in Iraq in 2003 were adorned with biblical quotations and appeared Sunday, six years later, on the website of GQ magazine.
The daily briefings were called the “Worldwide Intelligence Update,” one of several intelligence reports compiled overnight and presented in a folder for Rumsfeld and other officials as they came to work.
The accompanying GQ article suggested that Rumsfeld often delivered the briefings “by hand to the White House.”
But several former officials said Sunday they doubted that President George W. Bush regularly saw the Pentagon briefings or that Rumsfeld tolerated the embellishments for long.
