Cinta: El funcionario superior de la Cia confiesa orden para forjar la letra Iraq-9/11 vino en los efectos de escritorio blancos de la casa
Historia cruda | Una letra forjada que liga Saddam Hussein al sept. 11, 2001 ataques fueron pedidos en los efectos de escritorio blancos de la casa y vinieron probablemente de la oficina de vice presidente Dick Cheney, según a nueva transcripción de una conversación con el subdirector anterior de la agencia de inteligencia central de las operaciones clandestinas Roberto más rico.
La transcripción fue fijada viernes por el autor Ron Suskind de una entrevista conducida en junio. Viene en los talones de negaciones por la casa blanca y más rico de una demanda Suskind hecho en su libro nuevo, la manera del mundo. El libro fue escapado a Mike Politico Allen el lunes, y lanzó martes.
El martes, la casa blanca lanzó una declaración en un favor más rico. En él, haber declarado más rico, “nunca recibí la dirección de George Tenet o de cualquier persona en mi cadena del comando de fabricar un documento… conforme a Sr. Libro de Suskind.”
La negación, sin embargo, contradice directamente más rico propias observaciones en la transcripción.
“Ahora esto es de Office del vice presidente es cómo usted lo recordó -no del presidente?” Suskind pedido.
“No, no, no,” haber contestado más rico, según la transcripción. “Qué recuerdo es el refrán de George [Tenet], `que conseguimos esto de' - básicamente, de qué George dicho era el `céntrico. '”
“Que es la casa blanca?” Suskind pidió.
“Sí,” un dicho más rico. “Solamente él hizo no-en mi presidente, vice presidente, o NSC dicho memoria-nunca. ¿Autorización? Pero ahora-él puede tenerlo hecho alusión-apenas a propósito lo dijo, él tener-causa casi todos que la materia viniera a partir de un lugar solamente: Scooter Libby y la tienda alrededor del vice presidente.”
“Solamente él no dijo eso específicamente,” más rico agregado. “Naturally-I estaría parada probablemente en mi, básicamente, mi reputación y decirla vino del vice presidente.”
“Pero no había cualquier cosa en la escritura que usted recuerda decir al vice presidente,” Suskind continuado.
“Nope,” un dicho más rico.
“Acaba de tener los efectos de escritorio blancos de la casa.”
“Enderece exactamente.”
Más adelante, haber agregado más rica, “usted sabe, si usted ha visto siempre los efectos de escritorio del vice presidente, él está en el papel con membrete blanco de la casa. Pudo haber dicho OVP (oficina del vice presidente). 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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