테이프: 최고 CIA 관리는 백악관 문구용품에 이라크 9/11 편지를 위조하기 위하여 순서를 왔다 고죄한다
익지않는 이야기 | 9월에 Saddam Hussein를 연결하는 위조된 편지. 11는 백악관 문구용품에, 2001의 공격 주문되고 부통령의 딕 체니 사무실에서 a에 따르면 아마, 왔다 새로운 사본 중앙 정보부의 더 부유한 은밀한 가동 로버트의 이전 차관과 가진 대화의.
사본은 저자 6월에서 지휘된 면접시험의 Ron Suskind에 의해 금요일 배치되었다. 그것은 백악관 둘 다를 거쳐 부정의 발뒤꿈치에 그의 신간 서적, 세계의 방법에서 만들어진 요구 Suskind의 더 부유한 온다. 책은 월요일에 정치가의 마이크 알렌에게 새고, 화요일을 풀어 놓았다.
화요일에, 백악관 계산서를 발표했다 더 부유한 이익에. 그것에서는, 더 부유한 선언해, "나는 조지 신조에서 결코 방향 또는 씨 윤곽으로 나타난 대로 문서를… 날조하는 지휘 계통 나의에서 누군가를 그밖에 받지 않았다. Suskind의 책."
부정은, 그러나, 직접적으로 더 부유한 사본에 있는 자신의 말을 모순된다.
"이것은 부통령의 사무실에서 당신이 대통령에게서 그것 아닙니다를?" 기억한 방법 이다 지금 이다 받는 Suskind.
"아니오, 아니오, 아니오," 사본에 따르면 더 부유한 응답해. "조지 [신조] 말, 우리가 이것을에서' 얻은 `가 인지 나가 기억하는 무엇 - 무슨에서 조지가 말한 기본적으로, 도심지 `이었다. '"
"인 백악관?" Suskind는 물었다.
"그렇습니다," 말하는 더 부유한. "그러나 그는 나의 기억 결코아닙니다 에서 말했다 대통령, 부통령, 또는 NSC를 했다. 좋습니다? 그러나 지금 그는 재료가 1개의 장소에서 단지 왔다 말했다 그것을, 그것 하고자 했다 있 일으키는 원인이 된다 거의 모두를 암시해 다만 그런데 그가 있을지도 모른다: 스쿠터 Libby와 부통령의 주위에 상점."
"그러나 그는 저것을," 추가된 더 부유했던 특히 말하지 않았다. "나는 나에 naturally-I 아마 서 있을 것이고, 기본적으로, 나의 명망을 하고자 하고 그것을 말하는 것은 부통령에게서 왔다."
"그러나 당신이 부통령을 말하는 기억하는 쓰기에서 아무거나가," 계속된 Suskind 있었다.
"Nope," 말하는 더 부유한.
"그것에는 지금 막 있었다 백악관 문구용품이."
"정확하게 보상하십시오."
나중에, 더 부유한 추가해, "당신은 백악관 서신에 당신이 이제까지 부통령의 문구용품을 보는 경우에, 그것 있다 알고 있다. 그것은 OVP (부통령의 사무실)를 밝힐지도 모른다. 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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