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A tnagent to this Article below, that I see, would be that through Kristol Media, An Ex CIA analayst produced books under the Name of Shirley, Mr Ruell Gerecht WHOM being a PNAC AEI Hawk wrote about the incompetence of the CIA. Cheney may have read this Book, or was Briefed by an AEI "Board" or "Panel" because he stated several Times that "Feiths Intelligence was the best" even though today we know that Feiths intelligence was the "best". For Starting a War. Yet though the CIA was incompetent, so was Feith, and today the papers are aghast with Neo-Cons who can't figure out why their "OPINIONS" were so wrong. Worse Perle and the other Think Tank Buffoons of AEI PNAC and other Related $Enterprise$ groups such as Fukuyama, Sullivan, Wolfowitz can not, WILL NOT concede that they were wrong, now we see them in the media doing what they do best Lay blame on everyone but themselves and continue their Fear Factor paranoid opinions much of it to suit self-serving self-promoting ends, lets put an end to 'think-tank' partisan Ideology and Ideocentrism. Heroes in Error – March/April 2006 issue, Mother Jones http://motherjones.com/letters/2006/03/iraqi_general.html In "Heroes in Error" reporter Jack Fairweather outlines how both FRONTLINE and the New York Times were duped by the Iraqi National Congress (INC) in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Specifically, Fairweather says one of two defectors provided by the INC was an imposter. The defector claimed to have witnessed foreign Arab fighters training to hijack airplanes at the Salman Pak military facility south of Baghdad prior to 9/11. Your readers should know that checking inside Saddam's Iraq at the time of the broadcast on the bona fides of Iraqis who had fled the country was virtually impossible. FRONTLINE did its best to vet the interviews with American officials and hired our own translators. In the broadcast we noted that these two defectors had come to us through the INC, a group whose bias we identified. We quoted an American official who cast doubt on the defectors’ claims: "It is unlikely the training on the 707 is linked to the hijackings of September 11." We also interviewed the Iraqi Ambassador to the U.N., who told us: "I know the area, this Salman Pak. . . . It is not possible to do such a program there, because there's no place for planes, for airplanes there." Beyond these caveats, the program included such figures as Brent Scowcroft and Michael Sheehan who were cautious about much of the evidence against Saddam, specifically claims of a link between Iraq and the 9/11 hijackers. More importantly—and omitted from Fairweather’s article—is a 2003 FRONTLINE report in which we caught up with the INC leader Ahmed Chalabi and questioned him extensively on the false information that he and his organization had provided to FRONTLINE and others. Chalabi's answer then—"We're in Baghdad now"—was much the same as he gave to Fairweather two years later when he told him that the misinformation didn't matter. Clearly, what was said in print and over the airwaves before the war does matter. The Salman Pak story is a cautionary tale for all of us who are committed to tough investigative reporting. Well. Well. Those that Didn't connect the dots I'm gonna throw the bone =) http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2005/11/10/chalabi_and_aei_the_sequel.php The convicted embezzler, the suave fabricator of intelligence, and the secularist-turned-Shiite fundamentalist-turned-Iranian agent, the elusive subject of a slow-moving FBI spy investigation, and the self-described “hero in error” approached the podium at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday after a glowing introduction from Chris DeMuth, AEI’s president. After grumbling that the cherubic man he was about to introduce has been “defamed, undermined and attacked by agencies of the U.S. government,” DeMuth concluded: “Please give a warm welcome to this very great and very brave Iraqi patriot, liberal and liberator, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi.” He’s back. And one thing is clear—you can never, ever count Ahmed Chalabi out. As the cat has nine lives, Chalabi has an amazing ability to reinvent himself over and over, and he did so once again at AEI on Wednesday. Chalabi, who affected an aw-shucks manner, noted that it was the eighth time he’d spoken before the think tank that effectively launched his political career. To a packed house—so packed, in fact, that AEI pointedly disinvited your humble correspondent, who had to watch Chalabi in digital replay—Chalabi unloaded a campaign speech for his Iraqi National Congress election list. On December 15, Iraqis once more will go to the polls to vote for what will purport to be a permanent government. According to an Iraqi source, who spoke to me by telephone from Baghdad, the key to Chalabi’s five-week campaign plan is money. Another Iraqi, Aiham Al Sammarae, a key player in trying to bridge the divides among Iraq ’s ethnic and sectarian factions. agrees. “Money talks right now in Iraq,” says Al Sammarae. “Chalabi is paying money to all the media in Iraq. How much is he paying them? Where is he getting the money?” It isn’t clear, yet, what kind of reception Chalabi will get from official Washington, or even precisely why the United States is meeting with him at high levels. Even Danielle Pletka, the AEI vice president who is usually a reliable Chalabi partisan, seemed to be wondering aloud the same thing this week. “I understand why Ahmed Chalabi wants to see Condoleezza Rice; it is not entirely clear to me why Condoleezza Rice wants to see Ahmed Chalabi," she told AFP. Other observers flatly dispute that Chalabi has any chance of becoming Iraq’s prime minister. “I was asked what I thought of his chances,” says Wayne White, the former chief Iraq-watcher at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR). “And I said: zero.” Those that are wise to the Cheney "family' State Dept would know that AEI and the STATE Dept, if the above is TRUE, are either dupes or nefarious troglodytes. Post a comment in response: |
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