"Fixed" Intelligence from Feith's "Gestapo Office," the CIA and the Bush

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Administration's Impeachable Lies about Iraq's Prewar Links to al Qaeda

By Walter C. Uhler

Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).

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Except in the cynical, zealous or spiritually clouded minds of his right wing devotees, it's become a well-established (if under reported) fact that President George W. Bush is a serial liar, if not a congenital liar.1 For example, after The New York Times very belatedly leaked Mr. Bush's unconstitutional order permitting the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens without obtaining the required court-approved warrants, Bush defended his directive as a "vital tool" in the war against terrorism.

But, as liars commonly do, Bush seems to have forgotten that in April 2004 he told an audience in Buffalo, New York: "When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." He also told the audience that precisely because it was "the United States government talking about wiretap," Americans could rest assured that "constitutional guarantees are in place." 2

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Presumably, that CSR report did not count the intelligence "products" -- falsely linking Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda -- that were concocted for the Bush administration by Douglas Feith's "rogue" intelligence cell, the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group (PCEG).

"Falsely linking?" Yes, on July 22, 2004, the 9/11 Commission published its comprehensive "Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States." Although it acknowledged some evidence of contacts between Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorists, it emphasized, "To date we have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship. Nor have we seen evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al-Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States" 10

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On September 19, 2001, Richard Perle convened a meeting of the Defense Policy Board (DPB). Perle is the notorious neoconservative zealot and "Likud Zionist" 36 who, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, signed a 1996 report, titled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm -- for Israel's prime minister! It advised him to topple Saddam and launch preemptive strikes on other Arab states. 37 (Note well this endnote.)

Perle's contempt for the CIA was well known. In 2002 he told Knight Ridder, "The CIA's analysis isn't worth the paper it's written on." 38 On another occasion, Perle asserted: "I think the people working on the Persian Gulf at the CIA are pathetic…They have a record over 30 years of being wrong." 39

Perle placed greater value on the intelligence provided by the anti-Saddamist émigrés of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), headed by his friend, Ahmad Chalabi. In January 2001, the INC began receiving funds from the U.S. State Department "for an effort called the 'Information Collection Program.'" Under the program, "defectors from Saddam's military and secret police… available to American intelligence." 40

-MUCH MUCH MORE- But well worth the time it takes you to read it.

http://www.bushwatch.net/uhler.htm

edit: damn, damn, damn, damn, damn. Here's the link. Sorry.

[arikara]

1. I do believe

that you forgot the link. Thanks!

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