Reply #43: OK, the quick debunking [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

A senior government official who is not a political appointee provided CNSNews.com with copies of the 42 pages of Iraqi Intelligence Service documents. The originals, some of which were hand-written and others typed, are in Arabic. CNSNews.com had the papers translated into English by two individuals separately and independent of each other."
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"The senior government official and source of the Iraqi intelligence memos, explained that the reason the documents have not been made public before now is that the government has "thousands and thousands of documents waiting to be translated.

"It is unlikely they even know this exists," the source added.

The government official also explained that the motivation for leaking the documents, "is strictly national security and helping with the war on terrorism by focusing this country's attention on facts and away from political posturing.

We are expected to believe that a non-political official, who presumably can read Arabic (because they know what's in the documents, rather than waiting for the official translation process), decides that the best thing to do for national security is to leak the papers to a minor right-wing news website, rather than tell their superiors? Give me a break. That would be the worst thing for national security - close to treason.

Then the proof consists of one page of Arabic, unreadable because it's so small? The National Enquirer usually has better backup for its stories.

Forget this. It's bullshit.