Those docs. are pretty descriptive and would suggest a strong role Saddam played with al quida. But something doesn't smell right with them. I can't justify in my own mind how all of this information could be available yet not make it on the bill orielly and shawn hanneity shows.
Yes.. they are.. Feel free to forward them to Hannity or O'Reilly.
So far as I'm concerned, the fact that we've not dedicated more resources to fully exploiting those captured documents and making the truth known to the American people is a scandal.
You have to understand something though. The original "docex" (document exploitation) program was SOLELY funded under an executive order that created the Iraq Survey Group. When the ISG closed it's doors in April, 2005, that funding had to come out of the pockets of the intelligence agencies. And they obviously are not as willing to divert funding and manpower to uncovering the past when they are so heavily burdened with focusing upon unraveling the insurgent networks.
The entire docex program hung on a thread as of Fall, 2005, one of the reasons I sought a different employer and contract. I understand it is still ongoing, but I think it's at a greatly reduced level of manpower. Furthermore, they are primarily focused on supporting counter-insurgency operations (translating "pocket litter" from insurgents).
Another thing you'll find is that when documents were gathered, they were just shoved into boxes and taken back to camp. Although attempts were made to keep document sheets pertinent to one another intact, it was very difficult. When these boxes of pages were scanned, they were, for the most part, a hodge-podge of pages from various documents. Thus, there are pages of various documents scattered amongst various .PDF files in the Harmony database and it's extremely difficult to figure out which pages belong to which document.
This is why many of us who were involved in the docex operation are practically livid that there hasn't been a greater effort towards using optical scanning analysis to match pages by handwriting or typeset.
And I'm kind of limited in making too much of an outcry if I ever want to work in the field again.
All I can do is be the messenger and point you to publicly available documents. The rest is up to the American people.
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