Klebeband: Oberer CIA Beamter bekennt Auftrag, um Buchstaben Iraq-9/11 zu schmieden kam auf Hausbriefpapier
Rohe Geschichte | Ein geschmiedeter Buchstabe, der Saddam Hussein bis dem Sept. verbindet. 11, 2001 Angriffe wurden auf Hausbriefpapier bestellt und kamen vermutlich vom Büro des Vizepräsidenten Dick Cheney, entsprechend a neue Abschrift von einem Gespräch mit dem ehemaligen stellvertretenden Leiter CIA-der heimlichen Betriebe Robert reicher.
Die Abschrift wurde Freitag vom Autor Ron Suskind eines Interviews bekanntgegeben, das im Juni geleitet wurde. Es kommt auf die Fersen von Ablehnungen durch das Weiße Haus und reicher von einem Anspruch Suskind, das in seinem neuen Buch, die Weise der Welt gebildet wird. Das Buch wurde zu politischem Mike Allen am Montag ausgelaufen und Dienstag freigab.
Am Dienstag das Weiße Haus gab eine Aussage frei im reicheren Interesse. In es reicheres erklärt, „ich empfing nie Richtung von George Tenet oder von jedermann sonst in meinem Instanzenweg, eine Urkunde… wie in Herrn skizziert zu fälschen. Buch Suskinds.“
Die Ablehnung jedoch widerspricht direkt reicher eigene Anmerkungen in der Abschrift.
„Jetzt ist dieses von Office des Vizepräsidenten ist, wie Sie sich erinnerten an es-nicht vom Präsidenten?“ Suskind gebeten.
„Nr., Nr., Nr.,“ reicheres geantwortet, entsprechend der Abschrift. „Was ich mich erinnere, George [Lehre] Saying, `, das wir dieses von' - im Allgemeinen erhielten, ist von, welchem George, der das im Stadtzentrum gelegene gesagt wurde `war. '“
„Das ist das Weiße Haus?“ Suskind bat.
„Ja,“ reicheres besagtes. „Aber er tat nicht-in meinem Gedächtnis-nie besagten Präsidenten, in Vizepräsidenten oder in NSC. O.K.? Aber jetzt-er kann angespielt-gerade übrigens ihn haben sagte es, es wurde haben-verursacht fast alle, daß Material von einem Platz nur kam: Scooter Libby und das Geschäft um den Vizepräsidenten.“
„Aber er sagte nicht den spezifisch,“ reicheres addiert. „Ich wurde naturally-I würde stehen vermutlich auf meinem im Allgemeinen mein Renommee und es zu sagen kam vom Vizepräsidenten.“
„Aber es gab nicht nichts im Schreiben, dem Sie sich erinnern, den Vizepräsidenten zu sagen,“ fortgesetztes Suskind.
„Nope,“ reicheres besagtes.
„Es hatte gerade das Hausbriefpapier.“
„Berichtigen Sie genau.“
Später reicheres hinzugefügt, „Sie wissen, wenn Sie überhaupt das Briefpapier des Vizepräsidenten gesehen haben, es sind auf dem Hausbriefkopf. Es kann OVP (Büro des Vizepräsidenten) gesagt haben. I don’t remember that, so I don’t want to mislead you.”
Suskind says decision to post transcript unusual
Suskind posted the transcript at his blog, saying, “This posting is contrary to my practice across 25 years as a journalist. But the issues, in this matter, are simply too important to stand as discredited in any way.” It was first picked up by ThinkProgress and Congressional Quarterly’s Jeff Stein.
Suskind’s new book 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.
The Sunday Telegraph cited the main source for its story on Iraq’s 9/11 involvement as Ayad Allawi, a former Baathist who rebelled against Saddam and was appointed a government position after the US occupation.
Nothing in the story explains how an Iraqi politician was privy to the fake memo, but the New York Times column alluded to Allawi and described him as “an Iraqi leader long considered reliable by intelligence agencies.”
“To characterize it right,” Richer also declares in the transcript, “I would say, right: it came to us, George had a raised eyebrow, and basically we passed it on–it was to–and passed this on into the organization. You know, it was: ‘Okay, we gotta do this, but make it go away.’ To be honest with you, I don’t want to make it sound–I for sure don’t want to portray this as George jumping: ‘Okay, this has gotta happen.’ As I remember it–and, again, it’s still vague, so I’ll be very straight with you on this–is it wasn’t that important. It was: ‘This is unbelievable. This is just like all the other garbage we get about . . . I mean Mohammad Atta and links to al Qaeda. ‘Rob,’ you know, ‘do something with this.’ I think it was more like that than: ‘Get this done.’”
Magazine asserts Feith created bogus document
Today, The American Conservative also published a report saying that the forgery was actually produced by then-Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith’s Office of Special Plans, citing an unnamed intelligence source. The source reportedly added that Suskind’s overall claim “is correct.”
“My source also notes that Dick Cheney, who was behind the forgery, hated and mistrusted the Agency and would not have used it for such a sensitive assignment,” the magazine wrote. “Instead, he went to Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job. … It was Feith’s office that produced the letter and then surfaced it to the media in Iraq. Unlike the [Central Intelligence] Agency, the Pentagon had no restrictions on it regarding the production of false information to mislead the public. Indeed, one might argue that Doug Feith’s office specialized in such activity.”
More of Suskind’s transcripts are available here
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