Suskind Revisited
By Philip Giraldi, The American Conservative
An extremely reliable and well placed source in the intelligence community has informed me that Ron Suskind’s revelation that the White House ordered the preparation of a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda and also to attempts made to obtain yellowcake uranium is correct but that a number of details are wrong.
The Suskind account states that two senior CIA officers Robert Richer and John Maguire supervised the preparation of the document under direct orders coming from Director George Tenet. Not so, says my source. Tenet is for once telling the truth when he states that he would not have undermined himself by preparing such a document while at the same time insisting publicly that there was no connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda. Richer and Maguire have both denied that they were involved with the forgery and it should also be noted that preparation of such a document to mislead the media is illegal and they could have wound up in jail.
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. Instead, he went to Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job. The Pentagon has its own false documents center, primarily used to produce fake papers for Delta Force and other special ops officers traveling under cover as businessmen. It was Feith’s office that produced the letter and then surfaced it to the media in Iraq. Unlike the 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.
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That's a pretty big difference
legal - illegal
Pentagon - CIA
Doug Feith - Maguire/Richter/Tenet
hmmm...
incongruous
there is something incongruous about tenet being tasked w/such a mission instead of Feith.
i'm afraid of some kind of scenario where a) all rally around a false story demanding accountability; b) it gets proven false; c) efforts at accountability are seriously undermined.
Incongruous
there is something incongruous about tenet being tasked w/such a mission instead of Feith.
i'm afraid of some kind of scenario where a) all rally around a false story demanding accountability; b) it gets proven false; c) efforts at accountability are seriously undermined.