Plame Games Expose WMD 'Intelligence Failure' Scam

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by Ahmed Amr
(Sunday July 24 2005)by courtesy & © 2005 Ahmed Amr

"When the Plame scandal was in its early stages, George Bush expressed little urgency in finding the culprits. As he puts it "we may never catch the person who leaked this information." The president’s wishful thinking didn’t take into account one Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor. The question of the hour is what did the President not know and when did he block it out."

"It was a surprise to me then, it remains a surprise to me now, that we have not uncovered weapons. We were simply wrong.”
-- Lt. Gen. James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (5/30/2003).

“But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
-- George Bush (5/30/2003).

"This war was not waged under any false pretext."
-- Donald Rumsfeld (5/29/2003).

“Everything I presented on the 5th of February, I can tell you, there was good sourcing for, was not politicized, it was solid information,"
-- Colin Powell (5/30/2003).

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on,"
-- Paul Wolfowitz (5/28/2003). >>>>snip

Intelligence Failures for Dummies:
Why engineer an intelligence failure? When the mainstream ‘intelligence community’ is not giving you the kind of results you desire, a war mongering administration needs to find a way to manufacture its own intelligence products and make it look like they were prepared by the CIA.>>>>>snip

First,
you let Douglas Feith and Wolfie set up their own intelligence unit in the Pentagon and give it a big name like the Office of Special Plans. Next, make sure the office is staffed with those who share your neo-con agenda.

What next?
You need to develop and groom your own independent sources. You get a guy like Chalabi and his imaginery friends to provide you with the exact answers that fit your game plan. Just to make it appear legitimate, you use a few trusted journalists like Judith ‘WMD’ Miller of the New York Times to circulate stories confirming your ‘findings’. You now have ‘double sourcing’

And then what?
You challenge the CIA to match the quality of your work. Accuse them of timidity. You get Cheney and Libby to breathe down their necks and berate them for missing the Chalabi lead. You point out that Judith Miller is a second source who confirms the Chalabi story. Who can argue with the New York Times’ WMD expert – America’s very own Doctor Germ.

Isn’t this risky business?>>>>>snip

Read the rest and all of the article:

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17063

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1. Don't forget ...

(1) The (per DSM) 'wrong-footing' of Saddam Hussein by April Glaspie in 1990. Remember, another attempt to 'wrong-foot' Saddam was tried in 2002-3 with the UN/IAEA WMD Inspectors.

(1a) How many times did we hear the OUTRIGHT LIE that Saddam "expelled" the inspectors?? (That's WHIG's doing.)

(2) The fraudulent testimony, arranged by Ahmed Chalabi, regarding the Kuwaiti "babies removed from incubators" by Iraqis in 1991.

(3) The fraudulent (dis)intelligence from "Curveball" (a Chalabi 'source') regarding the (fictitious) chemical and biological weapons labs that formed the bulk of Powell's presentation beffore the U.N.


These folks, an adjunct of the WHIG, have been doing this shit for YEARS.

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2. Chalabi was also discussed in the article

"Can anything go wrong? Not a chance. Intelligence failures happen. We should know. We make them happen. We’ll blame the whole thing on Chalabi and his imaginary friends. Chalabi is more than willing to “fall on his sword in error”. He has been accused of worse things. Depend on Chalabi to be a good sport who doesn’t worry much about his reputation."

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3. "The question of the hour is what did the President not know"

"and when did he block it out."

Reagan said "I don't recall" until it became a permanent condition. Bush is about to lose his "brain"-- he's already lost his mind.

Talk about intelligence failure.

And then of course, there's the American people who put up with this...

:kick:

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4. I don't think he knows if he knows.

* is not a deep thinker, organizer, strategist or philosopher.
Hell, he can barely ride a bike.
I know he's a co-conspirator to this matter.

[omega minimo]

6. Drugged Chimpy being played by the Organ Grinders

:scared:

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7. Of course he is love the thougth on which organ is getting ground.

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5. self delete .....it repeated the post.

[Disturbed]

8. A theory: Mushroom Prezeldent

He is kept in the dark and fed shit. After the situation became a problem he was informed about it. I feel that he is part of the cover up. Cheney is the start of the Plame outing.