Fita adesiva: O oficial superior do CIA confesses a ordem para forjar a letra Iraq-9/11 veio nos artigos de papelaria brancos da casa
História crua | Uma letra forjada que liga Saddam Hussein ao Sept. 11, 2001 ataques foi requisitado nos artigos de papelaria brancos da casa e veio provavelmente do escritório do vice-presidente Dick Cheney, de acordo com a transcript novo de uma conversação com o deputado anterior chefe de agência de inteligência central de operações clandestinas Robert mais rico.
O transcript foi afixado sexta-feira pelo autor Ron Suskind de uma entrevista conduzida em junho. Vem nos saltos das negações pela casa branca e mais rico de uma reivindicação Suskind feito em seu livro novo, a maneira do mundo. O livro foi escapado ao microfone Politico Allen em segunda-feira, e liberou terça-feira.
Em terça-feira, a casa branca liberou uma indicação no interesse mais rico. Nele, declarado mais rico, “eu nunca recebi o sentido de George Tenet ou de qualquer um mais em minha corrente de comando fabricar um original… como esboçado no Sr. Livro de Suskind.”
A negação, entretanto, contradicts diretamente mais rico próprias observações no transcript.
“Agora isto é de Escritório do vice-presidente é como você o recordou -não do presidente?” Suskind pediu.
“No., No., No.,” respondido mais rico, de acordo com o transcript. “O que eu recordo é o provérbio de George [Tenet], `que nós começamos este de' - bàsicamente, de que George dito era o `da baixa. '”
“Que é a casa branca?” Suskind pediu.
“Sim,” dito mais rico. “Mas fêz não-em meu presidente, vice-presidente, ou NSC dito memória-nunca. Aprovação? Mas agora-pode ter sugerido-apenas pela maneira que a disse, ele t-causa quase tudo que o material veio de um lugar somente: Scooter Libby e a loja em torno do vice-presidente.”
“Mas não disse aquele especificamente,” mais rico adicionado. “Eu naturally-I estaria provavelmente no meu, bàsicamente, minha reputação e dizê-la veio do vice-presidente.”
“Mas não havia qualquer coisa na escrita que você recorda dizer o vice-presidente,” Suskind continuado.
“Nope,” dito mais rico.
“Teve apenas os artigos de papelaria brancos da casa.”
“Endireite exatamente.”
Mais tarde, adicionada mais rica, “você sabe, se você vir sempre os artigos de papelaria do vice-presidente, ele está no cabeçalho branco da casa. Pode ter dito OVP (escritório do 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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