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RE: virus: The Best Available Intelligence.
« on: 2005-11-22 15:45:34 » |
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[Blunderov] Cheney and Co. are lying for their lives. It doesn't seem to be
working.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5021
"Cheney Attempts to Tie Iraq to 9-11 Again
By Douglass K. Daniel
The Associated Press
Washington - Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday said he strongly disagrees
with a battle-tested congressman who advocates quickly pulling all US troops
from Iraq, calling such a proposal "a dangerous illusion."
But Cheney stopped short of joining those Republicans who have questioned
the patriotism and courage of Rep. John Murtha, D-PA, calling him "a good
man, a Marine, a patriot." Cheney's subdued comments about Murtha followed
those of President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
At the same time, Cheney pressed the administration's high-voltage attack on
war critics, particularly Senate Democrats who voted in October 2002 to give
Bush authority to go to war in Iraq and who now oppose his policy, calling
them "dishonest and reprehensible."
[Bl.] Cheney is also on record as saying that "those who are trying to
rewrite the history of how we got into this war are deeply reprehensible".
Maybe he would like to elaborate on the role of the Rendon Group and whether
congress had been briefed on the subject before they voted for war.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/
"The Rendon Group: Proof The Administration Manipulated Intelligence
From "Saddam Hussein's Development of Weapons of Mass Destruction" [White
House website]:
In 2001, an Iraqi defector, Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri, said he had
visited twenty secret facilities for chemical, biological and nuclear
weapons. . Mr. Saeed said Iraq used companies to purchase equipment with the
blessing of the United Nations - and then secretly used the equipment for
their weapons programs.
None of al-Haideri's claims were true. Today's Rolling Stone reveals that
the administration's use of al-Haideri's lies to justify the Iraq war were
"the product of a clandestine operation.that had been set up and funded by
the CIA and the Pentagon for the express purpose of selling a war."
At the center of this operation was John Rendon and The Rendon Group, "a
controversial, secretive firm that has been criticized as ineffective and
too expensive," paid more than $56 million by the government since the 9/11
attacks. (Taxpayers are paying Rendon himself $311.26/hour.)
The Rendon Group personally set up the Iraqi National Congress and helped
install Ahmad Chalabi as leader, whose main goal - "pressure the United
States to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein" - Rendon helped
facilitate. Pentagon documents show that Rendon has the highest level of
government clearance (above Top Secret), which helped it with its INC work -
"a worldwide media blitz designed to turn Hussein.into the greatest threat
to world peace."
While the White House continues to insist it did not manipulate intelligence
before the Iraq war, it sure seems that it hired John Rendon and his group
to do just that."
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997/?pageid=rs.PoliticsA
rchive&pageregion=mainRegion&rnd=1132258732457&has-player=false
The Man Who Sold the War
Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
By JAMES BAMFORD
<snip>Rendon was also charged with engaging in "military deception" online
-- an activity once assigned to the OSI. The company was contracted to
monitor Internet chat rooms in both English and Arabic -- and "participate
in these chat rooms when/if tasked." Rendon would also create a Web site
"with regular news summaries and feature articles. Targeted at the global
public, in English and at least four (4) additional languages, this activity
also will include an extensive e-mail push operation." These techniques are
commonly used to plant a variety of propaganda, including false information.
</snip>
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RE: virus: The Best Available Intelligence
« Reply #1 on: 2005-11-23 02:19:38 » |
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[Blunderov] Cheney agonistes:
"'Tis the voice of the Jubjub!" he suddenly cried.
(This man, that they used to call "Dunce.")
"As the Bellman would tell you," he added with pride,
"I have uttered that sentiment once.
"'Tis the note of the Jubjub! Keep count, I entreat;
You will find I have told it you twice.
'Tis the song of the Jubjub! The proof is complete,
If only I've stated it thrice."
(The incomparable Snark is to be found at
http://www.literature.org/authors/carroll-lewis/the-hunting-of-the-snark/
but it might be a boojum.)
Cheney equivocates:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5021
"Cheney ticked off a long list of terrorist attacks on American interests
going back more than the two decades that preceded the 2003 US-led invasion
of Iraq, including the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and earlier ones in Beirut,
Saudi Arabia and Africa".
Cheney disassembles:
""The flaws in the intelligence are plain enough in hindsight. But any
suggestion that prewar information was distorted, hyped or fabricated by the
leader of the nation is utterly false," Cheney said in a speech to the
American Enterprise Institute."
Cheney falls:
"This is very good indeed . Encouraging . Not like the crap we are all so
used to getting out of CIA."
(This quote appears at the end of the following article which has a wealth
of detail for those interested in the gruesome minutiae.)
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5062
<snip>
Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel
By Murray Waas, special to National Journal
C National Journal Group Inc.
Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified
briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the
Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant
credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al
Qaeda, according to government records and current and former officials with
firsthand knowledge of the matter.
(The administration has refused to provide the Sept. 21 President's Daily
Brief, even on a classified basis, and won't say anything more about it
other than to acknowledge that it exists.)
The information was provided to Bush on September 21, 2001 during the
"President's Daily Brief," a 30- to 45-minute early-morning national
security briefing. Information for PDBs has routinely been derived from
electronic intercepts, human agents, and reports from foreign intelligence
services, as well as more mundane sources such as news reports and public
statements by foreign leaders.
One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing was
that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda involved
attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam viewed Al
Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a
potential threat to his secular regime. At one point, analysts believed,
Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks of Al Qaeda with Iraqi nationals or
even Iraqi intelligence operatives to learn more about its inner workings,
according to records and sources.
The September 21, 2001, briefing was prepared at the request of the
president, who was eager in the days following the terrorist attacks to
learn all that he could about any possible connection between Iraq and Al
Qaeda. </snip>
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RE: virus: The Best Available Intelligence
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[Homerov] Mmm. "September 21 PDB". Mmm.
This one would be as good as the Downing Street Minutes. Mmm.
(The underlining below is mine.)
Best Regards.
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Proof That Bush Lied
Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Pane
Murray Waas
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info//article11121.htm
...Much of the contents of the September 21 PDB were later incorporated,
albeit in a slightly different form, into a lengthier CIA analysis examining
not only Al Qaeda's contacts with Iraq, but also Iraq's support for
international terrorism. Although the CIA found scant evidence of
collaboration between Iraq and Al Qaeda, the agency reported that it had
long since established that Iraq had previously supported the notorious Abu
Nidal terrorist organization, and had provided tens of millions of dollars
and logistical support to Palestinian groups, including payments to the
families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
The highly classified CIA assessment was distributed to President Bush, Vice
President Cheney, the president's national security adviser and deputy
national security adviser, the secretaries and undersecretaries of State and
Defense, and various other senior Bush administration policy makers,
according to government records.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has asked the White House for the CIA
assessment, the PDB of September 21, 2001, and dozens of other PDBs as part
of the committee's ongoing investigation into whether the Bush
administration misrepresented intelligence information in the run-up to war
with Iraq. The Bush administration has refused to turn over these documents.
Indeed, the existence of the September 21 PDB was not disclosed to the
Intelligence Committee until the summer of 2004, according to congressional
sources. Both Republicans and Democrats requested then that it be turned
over. The administration has refused to provide it, even on a classified
basis, and won't say anything more about it other than to acknowledge that
it exists.
On November 18, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said he planned to attach an
amendment to the fiscal 2006 intelligence authorization bill that would
require the Bush administration to give the Senate and House intelligence
committees copies of PDBs for a three-year period. After Democrats and
Republicans were unable to agree on language for the amendment, Kennedy said
he would delay final action on the matter until Congress returns in
December...
...The Plame affair was not so much a reflection of any personal animus
toward Wilson or Plame, says one former senior administration official who
knows most of the principals involved, but rather the direct result of
long-standing antipathy toward the CIA by Cheney, Libby, and others
involved. They viewed Wilson's outspoken criticism of the Bush
administration as an indirect attack by the spy agency.
Those grievances were also perhaps illustrated by comments that Vice
President Cheney himself wrote on one of Feith's reports detailing purported
evidence of links between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. In barely legible
handwriting, Cheney wrote in the margin of the report:
"This is very good indeed ... Encouraging ... Not like the crap we are all
so used to getting out of CIA."
-- Murray Waas is a Washington-based writer and frequent contributor to
National Journal. </snip>
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