Ex-CIA Agent Says WMD Intelligence Ignored
The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on ousting Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said according to CBS.Report: Ex-CIA Official Blasts White House
WASHINGTON - The former chief of the CIA's European operation is accusing the White House of ignoring the spy agency's doubts that Iraq had a budding nuclear program or weapons of mass destruction as the U.S. prepared for war.DoD staffer's notes from 9/11 obtained under FOIA
"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy," Tyler Drumheller told CBS' "60 Minutes" for an interview to be broadcast Sunday night. The network released excerpts ahead of the airing.
The released notes document Donald Rumsfeld's 2:40 PM instructions to General Myers to find the "[b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]" (as discussed on p. 334-335 of the 9/11 Commission Report and in Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack).Read more here, and here, and here.
In addition, the documents confirm the contents of CBS News' Sept. 4, 2002 report "Plans For Iraq Attack Began on 9/11," which quoted Rumsfeld's notes as stating: "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not." These lines were not mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report or Woodward's Plan of Attack...
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Folks, please believe me when I say there is near open civil war within the intel and military ranks. Those on the inside are trying desperately to get their concerns out to the American people via the retirees.
My sense is the desperation's due to a growing concern the neo-cons will replicate their mistakes with Iran. Note that Russia issued a warning today, telling the Bushies they would not support sanctions against Iran. There is more going on behind the scenes than we know.
Also under the radar: Iran shot rockets into Northern Iraq today at Kurdish Militia (Pesh Merga) camps in the Zagros Mountains, claiming the camps were full of Iranian, not Iraqi, Kurds (note that Kurds do not make a distinction; a Kurd is a Kurd is a Kurd... ). This was the same day that Jalal Talebani (Kurd) was reelected as President of Iraq (which I see as a good move, BTW; gotta love a former Militia leader from the Middle East who does not believe in the death penalty...).
Something's going on.. That is why the ex-generals and ex-cia officials are freaking out. Talking about the past as prologue is great, but too obtuse when we're dealing with two of the oldest civilizations on earth (Kurds and Iranians).
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