Band: De hoogste ambtenaar van de CIA bekent de orde om Irak-9/11 brief te smeden op de kantoorbehoeften van het Witte Huis kwam
Ruw Verhaal | Een gesmede brievenaaneenschakeling Saddam Hussein aan Sept. 11, werden 2001 aanvallen bevolen op de kantoorbehoeften van het Witte Huis en kwamen waarschijnlijk uit het bureau van Ondervoorzitter Dick Cheney, volgens a nieuw afschrift van een gesprek met de Leider van de Afgevaardigde van het Centrale Agentschap van de Intelligentie vroegere van Heimelijke Verrichtingen Robert Richer.
Het afschrift werd Vrijdag door auteur Ron Suskind van een gesprek gepost dat in Juni wordt geleid. Het komt op de hielen van ontkenning door zowel het Witte Huis en Rijker van een eis Suskind die in zijn nieuw boek, de Manier wordt gemaakt van de Wereld. Het boek werd gelekt aan Mike Allen van Politico op Maandag, en vrijgaf Dinsdag.
Voor Dinsdag, het Witte Huis gaf een verklaring vrij uit Rijker naam. Daarin, Rijkere verklaard, „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.“
De ontkenning, echter, spreekt direct Rijkere eigen opmerkingen in het afschrift tegen.
„Nu is dit van het Bureau van de Ondervoorzitter is hoe u zich het-niet van de voorzitter?“ herinnerde Gevraagde Suskind.
„Nr, nr, nr,“ Rijker antwoordde, volgens het afschrift. „Wat ik herinner is George die [Principe], `zegt wij dit van' - fundamenteel kregen, van welke bovengenoemd George de stad in `was. '“
„Welke het Witte Huis?“ is Gevraagde Suskind.
„Ja,“ bovengenoemd Rijker. „Maar hij deed niet-in mijn geheugen-nooit bovengenoemde voorzitter, ondervoorzitter, of NSC. O.k.? Maar nu-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.“
„Maar hij zei dat niet specifiek,“ toegevoegd Rijker. „Ik natuurlijk-ik waarschijnlijk zou bevinden op mijn, me fundamenteel, mijn reputatie en zou zeggen het kwam uit de ondervoorzitter.“
„Maar er waren niet om het even wat in het schrijven die u zich herinnert zeggend de ondervoorzitter,“ voortdurende Suskind.
„Nope,“ bovengenoemd Rijker.
„Het had enkel de kantoorbehoeften van het Witte Huis.“
„Precies recht.“
Recentere, Rijkere toegevoegd, „u weet, als u ooit de kantoorbehoeften van de ondervoorzitter hebt gezien, het is op het briefhoofd van het Witte Huis het. Het kan OVP (Bureau van de Ondervoorzitter) gezegd hebben. 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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