テープ: 上CIAの役人はホワイトハウスの文房具にイラク9/11の手紙を造るために順序を来た告白する
未加工物語 | 9月にSaddam Husseinをつなぐ造られた手紙。 11はホワイトハウスの文房具で、2001の攻撃発注され、副大統領のDick Cheneyオフィスからaに従っておそらく、来た 新しいコピー 中央情報局のより豊富な隠密活動ロバートの前の次官との会話の。
コピーは著者6月に行なわれたインタビューのRon Suskindによって金曜日掲示された。 それはホワイトハウスによって否定のかかとに彼の新刊書、世界の方法で作られる要求Suskindのより豊富来。 本は月曜日の政治家のマイクアレンに漏り、火曜日を解放した。
火曜日、ホワイトハウス 声明を発表した より豊富な為。 それでは、より豊富な宣言されて、「私はジョージの主義から決して方向または氏にある文書を…製造する私の指揮系統の誰でもを受け取らなかった。 Suskindの本」。
しかし否定は直接より豊富コピーの自身の注目を否定する。
「これは副大統領のオフィスから大統領からのそれないをか」。いかに覚えていたかである今ある 頼まれるSuskind。
「NO、NO、NO」、コピーに従ってより豊富な答えられて。 「ジョージ[主義]格言、私達がこれをから」得た`があるか私が覚えている何-どんなからのジョージが言ったか基本的に、都心の`だった。」」
「であるホワイトハウスか」。 Suskindは頼んだ。
「はい」、言われるより豊富。 「しかし彼は私の記憶決してないで言った大統領、副大統領、またはNSCをした。 いいですか。 しかし原料が1つの場所からだけ来たこと今彼に言ったそれをのそれ持もたらすほとんどすべてを暗示されてちょうどところで彼があるかもしれない: スクーターLibbyおよび副大統領のまわりの店」。
「しかし彼はそれを」、加えられたより豊富とりわけ言わなかった。 「私は私にnaturally-Iおそらく立てる、基本的に、私の評判を、それを言うことは副大統領から来た」。
「しかしあなたが副大統領を言うことを覚えている執筆に何でも」続いたSuskindなかった。
「Nope」、言われるより豊富。
「それにちょうどあったホワイトハウスの文房具が」。
「丁度訂正しなさい」。
副大統領の文房具を見たことがあったら後で、より豊富な加えられて、「ホワイトハウスレターヘッドに、それある知っている。 それはOVP (副大統領のオフィス)を言うかもしれない。 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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