Who is John Hannah? Let's look back...

[RSchewe]

Newsweek: Exclusive: Cheney and the ‘Raw’ Intelligence

(snip)

For months, Cheney’s office has denied that the veep bypassed U.S. intelligence agencies to get intel reports from the INC. But a June 2002 memo written by INC lobbyist Entifadh Qunbar to a U.S. Senate committee lists John Hannah, a senior national-security aide on Cheney’s staff, as one of two “U.S. governmental recipients” for reports generated by an intelligence program being run by the INC and which was then being funded by the State Department. Under the program, “defectors, reports and raw intelligence are cultivated and analyzed”; the info was then reported to, among others, “appropriate governmental, non-governmental and international agencies.” The memo not only describes Cheney aide Hannah as a “principal point of contact” for the program, it even provides his direct White House telephone number.

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660169/



Informed Comment (Juan Cole): John Hannah Allegedly Focus of Plame Probe

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Libby and Hannah form part of a 13-man vice presidential advisory team, sort of a veep NSC, which helps underpin Cheney's dominance in the US foreign policy area. Hannah is a neoconservative and old cold warrior who is really more of a Soviet expert than a Middle East expert. But in the 90s he for a while headed up the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), a think tank that represents the interests of the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC).

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http://www.juancole.com/2004/02/john-hannah-allegedly-focus-of-plame.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Wow, if Fitzgerald links the Plame outing and AIPAC

the shit will surely hit the fan.

[mattclearing]

3. If anything was tailor-made to guarantee a convenient terror attack...

That is it.

[havocmom]

6. Can't help but wonder if tunnel threats and bridge fires

might be some sort of reminder to people trying to do the right thing that very bad people still have too much power.

[MN ChimpH8R]

4. I don't think that is much of a leap

Man, the skeletons will come tumbling out of the closet like zombies out of a George Romero klown kar. This could be HUGH11!!11. The fweepers' heads must be exploding hither and yon.

[SpiralHawk]

2. A group of 13 men? WTF? Is this a coven?

I mean, I know BushCo is into to occult and Skull & Bones and all that weird shit, but a Male Coven? Disturbing, to say the least.

[RSchewe]

5. TalkLeft quotes Joseph Wilson's book

Joe Wilson on Leakers: Elliot Abrams, Libby & Rove

In May, 2004, Salon published an excerpt from Joe Wilson's book, in which he presents his thoughts about who leaked his wife's name.

(snip)

In fact, senior advisers close to the president may well have been clever enough to have used others to do the actual leaking, in order to keep their fingerprints off the crime. John Hannah and David Wurmser, mid-level political appointees in the vice president's office, have both been suggested as sources of the leaks. I don't know either, though at the time of the leak, Wurmser, a prominent neoconservative, was working as a special assistant to John Bolton at the State Department. Mid-level officials, however, do not leak information without authority from a higher level. They would have been instruments, not the makers, of decisions.

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http://talkleft.com/new_archives/011360.html