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20080606
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-  Iraq
"Clarke
On Iraq War Architects: ‘We Shouldn’t Let These People Back Into Polite
Society’." ... "Noting that “prominent Democrats”
had ruled out impeachment, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann asked former counterterrorism
adviser Richard
Clarke on his show last night, what “remedy” there could be for the
lies and misinformation highlighted in the new Senate Intelligence Committee
reports
on the Bush administration’s misuse of pre-war Iraq intelligence." ...
"“Someone should have to pay in some way for the decisions that they made
to mislead the American people,” said Clarke. He suggested that “some sort
of truth and reconciliation commission” might be appropriate because, he
said, we can’t “let these people back into polite society”:"
"CLARKE:
Well, there may be some other kind of remedy. There may be some sort of
truth and reconciliation commission process that’s been tried in other
countries, South Africa, Salvador and what not, where if you come forward
and admit that you were in error or admit that you lied, admit that you
did something, then you’re forgiven. Otherwise, you are censured in some
way."
"Now,
I
just don’t think we can let these people back into polite society and give
them jobs on university boards and corporate boards and just let them pretend
that nothing ever happened when there are 4,000 Americans dead and 25,000
Americans grieviously wounded, and they’ll carry those wounds and suffer
all the rest of their lives"
 WATCH
VIDEO: "Clarke on Iraq War Architects."
"Unfortunately,
as Clarke hints, most of the architects
of the Iraq war are still fully embraced by “polite society.”" ...
"Some, like [Republicans] President Bush and Vice President Cheney, are
still working in the White House. But for many of those who left, “the
neocon welfare system” has been generous:"
"-
Last fall, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was named a “distinguished
visiting fellow” at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University,
where he focuses on “issues pertaining to ideology and terror.”"
"-
After a controversial
tenure as the president of the World Bank, former Deputy Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz is a visiting
scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think
tank."
"-
Richard Perle, the chairman of Defense Policy Board during the run up to
the Iraq war, also landed on the payroll of the American Enterprise Institute,
where he is a resident
fellow."
"Despite
their re-emergence into “polite society,” these war
architects have largely refused to admit that they lied. In fact, some,
like former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith, insist that
the American people only feel misled about Iraq because “they
misremember a lot."" -ThinkProgress.org
20070904
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US
- Iraq
- Military
- Intelligence
- Douglas
Feith
- "Envoy’s
Letters Counter Bush on Plan for Iraq." ... "A previously
undisclosed exchange of letters shows that [Republican] President Bush
was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to “dissolve
Saddam’s military and intelligence structures,” a plan that the envoy,
L. Paul Bremer, said referred to dismantling the Iraqi Army." ... "Mr.
Bremer provided the letters to The New York Times on Monday after reading
that Mr. Bush was quoted in a new book as saying that American policy had
been “to keep the army intact” but that it “didn’t happen.”" ... "The dismantling
of the Iraqi Army in the aftermath of the American invasion is now widely
regarded as a mistake that stoked rebellion among hundreds of thousands
of former Iraqi soldiers and made it more difficult to reduce sectarian
bloodshed and attacks by insurgents. In releasing the letters, Mr. Bremer
said he wanted to refute the suggestion in Mr. Bush’s comment that Mr.
Bremer had acted to disband the army without the knowledge and concurrence
of the White House." ... "“We must make it clear to everyone that we mean
business: that Saddam and the Baathists are finished,” Mr. Bremer wrote
in a letter that was drafted on May 20, 2003, and sent to the president
on May 22 through Donald H. Rumsfeld, then secretary of defense." ... "Mr.
Bremer said he sent a draft of the proposed order on May 9, shortly before
he departed for his new post in Baghdad [Iraq's capital], to Mr. Rumsfeld
and other top Pentagon officials." ... "Among others who received the draft
order, he said, were Paul D. Wolfowitz, then the deputy secretary of defense;
Douglas J. Feith, then under secretary of defense for policy; Lt. Gen.
David D. McKiernan, then head of the American-led coalition forces in Iraq;
and the Joint Chiefs of Staff." -By Edmund L. Andrews
with contributions by Michael R. Gordon -NYTimes
20070601
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Cheney
- Douglas
Feith
- US
-
 China
-  Taiwan
- Iraq
- Intelligence
-  Nuclear
- Military
-  History
- Politics
- "Defense
Officials Tried to Reverse China Policy, Says Powell Aide."
... "The same top [Republican President] Bush administration neoconservatives
who leap-frogged Washington’s foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam
Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relations—creating
the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary
of State Colin Powell says." ... "Lawrence B. Wilkerson, the U.S. Army
colonel who was Powell’s chief of staff through two administrations, said
in little-noted remarks early last month that “neocons” in the top rungs
of the administration quietly encouraged Taiwanese politicians to move
toward a declaration of independence from mainland China — an act that
the communist regime has repeatedly warned would provoke a military strike."
... "The top U.S. diplomat in Taiwan at the time, Douglas Paal [head of
the American Institute in Taiwan], backs up Wilkerson’s account, which
is being hotly disputed by key former defense officials." ... "With the
election of George W. Bush in 2000, some of Taiwan’s most fervent allies
were swept back into power in Washington, particularly at the Pentagon,
starting with Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld." ... "They included
such key architects of the Iraq War as Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense
secretary, Douglas Feith, the undersecretary for policy, and Steven Cambone,
Rumsfeld’s new intelligence chief, Wilkerson said. President Bush’s controversial
envoy to the United Nations, John Bolton, was another." ... "While Bush
publicly continued the one-China policy of his five White House predecessors,
Wilkerson said, the Pentagon “neocons” took a different tack, quietly encouraging
Taiwan’s pro-independence president, Chen Shui-bian." ... "“The Defense
Department, with Feith, Cambone, Wolfowitz [and] Rumsfeld, was dispatching
a person to Taiwan every week, essentially to tell the Taiwanese that the
alliance was back on,” Wilkerson said, referring to pre-1970s military
and diplomatic relations, “essentially to tell Chen Shui-bian, whose entire
power in Taiwan rested on the independence movement, that independence
was a good thing.”" ... "Wilkerson said Powell would then dispatch his
own envoy “right behind that guy, every time they sent somebody, to disabuse
the entire Taiwanese national security apparatus of what they’d been told
by the Defense Department.”" ... "“This went on,” he said of the pro-independence
efforts, “until George Bush weighed in and told Rumsfeld to cease and desist
[and] told him multiple times to re-establish military-to-military relations
with China.”" ... "[Wilkerson, responding to denials of his assertions]
“They are dangerous men who will lie about almost anyone or anything,”
Wilkerson angrily responded by e-mail, singling out Feith, [former Rumsfeld
spokesman Lawrence] DiRita, Cheney and Rumsfeld for scorn." ... "He called
back-stage encouragement of the Taiwanese “even more serious” than the
alleged manipulation of Iraq intelligence, because it could provoke China
to attack the island, triggering a U.S. response and the world’s first
nuclear shooting war." -By Jeff Stein
-CQ.com
20070406
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 Secret
- US- Iraq
- Military
- Terrorism
- Intelligence
- Politics
- Cheney
- Douglas
Feith
-  Mich
- "Hussein's
Prewar Ties To Al-Qaeda Discounted: Pentagon Report
Says Contacts Were Limited." ... "Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence
interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides "all confirmed" that
Hussein's regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the
U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report
released yesterday." ... "The declassified version of the report, by acting
Inspector General Thomas F. Gimble, also contains new details about the
intelligence community's prewar consensus that the Iraqi government and
al-Qaeda figures had only limited contacts, and its judgments that reports
of deeper links were based on dubious or unconfirmed information. The report
had been released in summary form in February." ... "The report's release
came on the same day that [Republican] Vice President Cheney, appearing
on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, repeated his allegation that al-Qaeda
was operating inside Iraq "before we ever launched" the war, under the
direction of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist killed last June." ...
"Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl M. Levin (D-Mich. [Michigan
Democratic Senator]), who requested the report's declassification, said
in a written statement that the complete text demonstrates more fully why
the inspector general concluded that a key Pentagon office -- run by former
undersecretary of defense Douglas J. Feith -- had inappropriately written
intelligence assessments before the March 2003 invasion alleging connections
between al-Qaeda and Iraq that the U.S. intelligence consensus disputed."
... "The report, in a passage previously marked secret, said Feith's office
had asserted in a briefing given to Cheney's chief of staff in September
2002 that the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda was "mature" and "symbiotic,"
marked by shared interests and evidenced by cooperation across 10 categories,
including training, financing and logistics." ... "Instead, the report
said, the CIA had concluded in June 2002 that there were few substantiated
contacts between al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi officials, and said that
it lacked evidence of a long-term relationship like the one Iraq had forged
with other terrorist groups." (1, 2)
-By R. Jeffrey Smith with contributions by Dafna Linzer
and Julie Tate-WashingtonPost
20070405
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US- Iraq
- Military
- Terrorism
- Intelligence
- Politics
- Douglas
Feith
- Cheney
-
 Libby
- Michigan
- "Pentagon
`Undercut' CIA on Pre-War Intelligence, Probe Finds."
... "Defense Department officials ``undercut'' the U.S. intelligence community
when making a case to White House officials that Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein had a close relationship with the al-Qaeda terror network, the
Pentagon inspector general said in a declassified report." ... "Analysts
reporting to former Undersecretary for Policy Douglas Feith told then-Deputy
National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Lewis Libby, the vice president's
chief of staff, that there were ``fundamental problems with how the intelligence
community is assessing information,'' the report shows." ... "The report
concludes the Pentagon provided ``inappropriate'' analysis for its finding
of a strong link between Hussein and al- Qaeda -- a finding that [Republican]
Vice President Dick Cheney cited as a rationale for invading Iraq along
with the need to disarm the nation of weapons of mass destruction." ...
"[Acting Inspector General Thomas] Gimble told the committee that
the actions of Feith and his subordinates were authorized by then-Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz." ... "[Michigan
Democratic Senator Carl] Levin, in a statement today, said the analysis
from Feith's office ``was not supported by available intelligence and was
contrary to the consensus view of the intelligence community'' yet was
``used by the administration to support its public arguments in its case
for war.'' " ... "``The intelligence community never found an operational
relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda,'' Levin said. ``The report specifically
states that `the CIA and DIA disavowed any `mature, symbiotic' relationship
between Iraq and al-Qaeda.''" -By Tony Capaccio
-Bloomberg
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Law - "Sen. Roberts seeks delay of Intel probe." ... "Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel’s inquiry into the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off its most politically controversial elements to a later time." ... "The inquiry has dragged on for more than two years, a slow pace that prompted Democrats to force the Senate into an extraordinary closed-door session in November. Republicans then promised to speed up the probe." ... "Left unfinished would be a report on whether public statements and testimony about Iraq by senior U.S. government officials were substantiated by available intelligence information. Roberts also would leave unfinished another report on what Democrats have called possibly illegal activity in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, formerly headed by Douglas Feith, who is believed to have played an important role in persuading the president to invade Iraq." -By Alexander Bolton-TheHill.com
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