磁帶： Top CIA official confesses order forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery
未加工的故事 | 連接Saddam Hussein的一封偽造的信件與9月。 11， 2001次攻擊在白宮文具被定購了和大概來自Dick Cheney副總統辦公室，根據a 新的抄本 一次交談與秘密操作羅伯特的中央情報局前副首領更加富有。
抄本由作者採訪的Ron在6月舉辦的Suskind星期五張貼。 它在否認腳跟來由白宮和富有要求在他的新書做的Suskind，世界的方式。 在星期一書漏了對政客的麥克・亞倫，并且發布了星期二。
在星期二，白宮 發表了聲明 代表更加富有的。 如先生所述，在它，更加富有宣稱， 「我從喬治原則未曾接受方向或任何人在我的指揮系統製造文件…。 Suskind的書」。
否認，然而，在抄本直接地抗辯更加富有自己的評論。
「現在這是從副總統的辦公室是怎麼您記住了它沒有從總統？」 Suskind要求。
「沒有，沒有，沒有」，更加富有根據抄本回復。 「什麼我記得是喬治[原則]說法，我們得到此從』 -的`基本上，從什麼喬治說是`街市。』」
「是白宮？」 Suskind要求。
「是」，說的更加富有。 「但是他做了沒有在我的記憶從未說總統、副總統或者NSC。 好嗎？ 但現在他也許有暗示他順便說一句說它，它會有導致幾乎所有材料只來自一個地方： 滑行車Libby和商店在副總統附近」。
「但是他沒具體地說那」，增加的更加富有。 「我在我會naturally-I大概會站立，基本上，我的名譽，并且說它來自副總統」。
「但任何在您記得說副總統的文字」，繼續的Suskind。
「Nope」，說的更加富有。
「它有白宮文具」。
「確切地糾正」。
以後，更加富有增加， 「您知道，如果您看見了副總統的文具，它在白宮信頭。 它也許認為OVP (副總統辦公室)。 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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