The Neocons Were Setting Stage for Iraq War BEFORE Bush Was Elected

[kpete]

Emptywheel has a superb post up about "Jerry Doe," a former colleague of Valerie Plame’s at the CIA who was assigned to counter-proliferation in the Middle East who is suing Porter Goss and various other people within the CIA for firing him because he refused to falsify information on Iraq.

James Risen has written about him:

In a lawsuit filed in federal court here in December, the former C.I.A. officer, whose name remains secret, said that the informant told him that Iraq’s uranium enrichment program had ended years earlier and that centrifuge components from the scuttled program were available for examination and even purchase.

His information on the Iraqi nuclear program, described as coming from a significant source, would have arrived at a time when the C.I.A. was starting to reconsider whether Iraq had revived its efforts to develop nuclear weapons. The agency’s conclusion that this was happening, eventually made public by the Bush administration in 2002 as part of its rationale for war, has since been found to be incorrect.

Doe is claiming that he followed all the appropriate channels to get his information out, but that his information was supressed and he was both harassed and terminated for his efforts. Says emptywheel:

If what Doe alleges is true, the CIA five times tried to force him to stop pursuing intelligence–one time burying actionable intelligence, another time, trying to get him to falsify intelligence–that countered the party line. To punish him for not hewing to the party line, they first withheld a promotion he had qualified for. Then, they accused him (falsely, he says) of sleeping with a female asset, blackmailing James Pavitt, and embezzling money. Doe alleges these accusations served as the pretext to fire him. Then, to make sure he didn’t contest the termination, they retroactively negated his move from contract to staff status, 10 years after the fact. By turning Doe, retroactively, back into a contractor, they denied him the ability to appeal or investigate his own personnel files.

Emptywheel also notes this tantalizing bit, which indicates that the Neocons were already setting the stage for the Iraq war even before Bush was elected, and were just waiting for the appropriate puppet president to take the stage and push the button:

The first time Doe was required to bury intelligence was in 2000, before Bush was inaugurated and probably before he was (s)elected. Which reminds me that the Niger embassy in Rome was burgled (and therefore the plot to forge the Niger documents was presumably in place) in early January 2001, before Bush was inaugurated. In other words, they’ve been setting up their Neocon moves since before Bush was put into office.

more at:
http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/05/04/2265/#comments
and:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/05/meet_john_doe.html

[endarkenment]

1. But anyone who expresses the logical implications is 'tinfoiled'.

They stole the 2000 election because 9/11 was in the pipeline and they knew it and had to have their guy in place when it happened.

It is that simple. Or it was just a miraculous coincidence. Clinton signed 3000 death warrants when he rejected the 98 PNAC letter.

A pearl harbor was required and a pearl harbor was obtained. The rest is history, and we are all in denial.

[drduffy]

2. couldn't have said it better