Libby die op gesmede brievenaaneenschakeling Saddam aan 9/11 wordt gevraagd
Gaf Gerechtelijke Voorzitter John Conyers van het huis (D-MI) brieven van onderzoeksWoensdag aan de vroegere leider van Ondervoorzitter Cheney's van personeel, I. uit. Lewis Libby, betreffende een gesmede brievenaaneenschakeling Saddam Hussein aan de 9/11 aanvallen.
De democraat van Michigan verzond ook brieven naar hogere vroegere de intelligentieambtenaren van Bush, met inbegrip van Robert Richer, de vroegere Directeur van de Afgevaardigde van de CIA van Heimelijke Verrichtingen, die beweerden dat het bureau van Cheney de CIA duwde om een phony brief te ontwikkelen om hun argument voor een preventieve staking op Irak te helpen. De brieven werden gekopi�ërd aan RUW VERHAAL.
„ik ben zeer betrokken bij de mogelijkheid dat dit Beleid federale wet kan overtreden hebben door de middelen van onze intelligentieagentschappen te gebruiken om binnenlands beleidsprocessen of advies te beïnvloeden,“ Conyers schreef Libby geworden, die werd veroordeeld wegens obstakel van rechtvaardigheid in het uitje van de agent Valerie Plame van de CIA. De „wet bepaalt specifiek dat „[de heimelijke actie van n] o kan worden geleid die bedoeld is om de politieke processen van Verenigde Staten, de publieke opinie, beleid, of media te beïnvloeden.“
De brieven van Conyers' komen in het spoor van eisen door auteur Ron Suskind, die Rijker aan zijn meest recente boek als het zeggen van een gesmede brievenaaneenschakeling Saddam Hussein aan Sept. citeert. 11, werden 2001 aanvallen bevolen op de kantoorbehoeften van het Witte Huis.
„Wat ik herinner is George die [Principe], `zegt wij dit van' kregen -, van welke bovengenoemd George `de stad in was,'“ Rijker zegt fundamenteel in a afschrift vrijgegeven Suskind. „Hij kan laten doorschemeren-enkel door de manier hebben hij het zei, het hebben-oorzaak bijna al dat materiaal uit één plaats slechts kwam: Scooter Libby en de winkel rond de ondervoorzitter.“
Rijkere wedstrijden de rekening. In een ongebruikelijke beweging, gaf het Witte Huis een ontkenning in Rijkere naam uit toen de details van het boek werden bevrijd vroeger deze maand.
Daarin, Verklaard rijker, „ik ontving nooit richting van George Tenet of iedereen anders in mijn ketting van bevel om een document… zoals samengevat in M. te vervaardigen. Het boek van Suskind.“
Suskind, echter, zegt hij een band van hun gesprek heeft, dat vroeger op het jaar plaatsvond. Zijn vroegere rekeningen van interne machinations van het Beleid zijn onder nauwkeurig onderzoek opgestaan. Conyers vroeg dat Rijker „een tijd“ opzet om beweringen te bespreken die de valse brief omringen.
“According to recent allegations in your capacity as the former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations and Chief of the Near East Division, you were tasked by former CIA Director George Tenet to create the false letter and may even have seen the White House stationery on which the false letter assignment was reportedly written,” Conyers wrote Richer Wednesday. “Given your reported direct knowledge of these events, I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter.”
Full transcripts of the letters follow. Conyers also wrote John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs.
Book asserts White House ordered forged letter
Suskind’s book, The Way of The World, asserts that senior Bush officials ordered the CIA to forge a document “proving” that Saddam Hussein had been trying to manufacture nuclear weapons and was collaborating with al Qaeda. The alleged result was a faked memorandum from then chief of Saddam’s intelligence service Tahir Jalil Habbush dated July 1, 2001, and written to Hussein.
The bogus memo claimed that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had received training in Baghdad but also discussed the arrival of a “shipment” from Niger, which the Administration claimed had supplied Iraq with yellowcake uranium — based on yet another forged document whose source remains uncertain.
The memo subsequently was treated as fact by the British Sunday Telegraph, and cited by William Safire in his New York Times column, providing fodder for Bush’s efforts to take the US to war.
It is likely the Vice President’s Office will refer to Richer’s denial on the matter and claim that discussions between the Vice President’s staff and the Vice President are protected. Libby, who was convicted of four counts of obstruction of justice and perjury, was sentenced to 30 months in prison but had his sentence commuted by President Bush in July 2007.
Letter to Rob Richer, former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations
Mr. Rob Richer
c/o Cofer Black
Total Intelligence Solutions
1650 Tysons Boulevard, Suite 800
McLean, Virginia 22102
Dear Mr. Richer:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein’s former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President’s Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a “shipment” (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that “[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media.”
According to recent allegations, in your capacity as the former CIA Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations and Chief of the Near East Division, you were tasked by former CIA Director George Tenet to create the false letter and may even have seen the White House stationery on which the false letter assignment was reportedly written. Given your reported direct knowledge of these events, I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: XXXXXXXXXX, fax: XXXXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
Letter to I. Lewis Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6216
(202) XXXXXXXX
http://www.house.gov/judiciary
August 20, 2008
Mr. Lewis I. Libby
The Hudson Institute
Sixth Floor
1015 15th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Dear Mr. Libby:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein’s former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President’s Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a “shipment” (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that “[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media.”
According to recent allegations, the Vice President’s Office was involved in directing CIA officials to draft the false letter. As the former Chief of Staff to the Vice President, you may have direct knowledge of these events. I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: XXXXXXXXXX, fax: XXXXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
Letter to John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
ONE HUNDRED TENTH CONGRESS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515-6216
(202)XXXXXXXX
http://www.house.gov/judiciary
August 20, 2008
Mr. John Hannah
Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
Eisenhower Executive Complex
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. Hannah:
I am writing to follow up on recent serious allegations regarding the creation of a false letter from Tahir Jalil Habbush, Saddam Hussein’s former Chief of Intelligence, to Saddam Hussein. The letter, which was allegedly backdated to July 1, 2001, attempted to establish an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein in the period before the 9/11 attacks by specifically stating that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta had received training in Iraq. At the time of the alleged decision in 2003 to concoct the false letter, the Vice President’s Office had been reportedly pressuring the CIA to prove this connection as a justification to invade Iraq. The letter also falsely noted that Iraq had received a “shipment” (presumably uranium) from Niger with the assistance of al Qaeda.
Upon careful review of the allegations concerning this matter, I have become very concerned with the possibility that this Administration may have violated federal law by using the resources of our intelligence agencies to influence domestic policy processes or opinion. The law specifically provides that “[n]o covert action may be conducted which is intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies, or media.”
According to recent allegations, the Vice President’s Office was involved in directing CIA officials to draft the false letter. As Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, you may have direct knowledge of these events. I am requesting that you contact Judiciary Committee staff as soon as possible to set up a time to discuss your involvement and knowledge of the allegedly false letter. Please direct your response and any questions to the Judiciary Committee office, 2138 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 (tel: 202-XXXXXXX fax: 202-XXXXXXXX). Thank you very much for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
John Conyers, Jr.
Chairman
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PDF copies of the letters are also available at the links below:
To former CIA Director George Tenet
To John Maguire, Director of Congressional Affairs
To John Hannah, Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs
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