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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11?

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To: Skywatcher who wrote (7187)7/11/2004 4:06:12 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) of 20039
 
Chris > JUST DOESN'T GET MUCH WORSE THAN THIS

Actually it does. The real mischief has nothing to do with the CIA. The bad guys are the neocons, the ones who infest the Pentagon. They didn't like what the CIA was telling them so they set up their own Office of Special Plans to manufacture "intelligence". In this matter the CIA are actually the "fall-guys".

telegraph.co.uk

>>According to dramatic testimony contained in the annexe, Mr Feith's cell undermined the credibility of CIA judgments on Iraq's alleged al-Qa'eda links within the highest levels of the Bush administration.

The cell appears to have been set up by Mr Feith as an adjunct to the Office of Special Plans, a Pentagon intelligence-gathering operation established in the wake of 9/11 with the authority of Paul Wolfowitz. Its focus quickly became the al-Qa'eda-Saddam link.

On occasion, without informing the then head of the CIA, George Tenet, the group gave counter-briefings in the White House. Sen Jay Rockefeller, the most senior Democrat on the committee, said that Mr Feith's cell may even have undertaken "unlawful" intelligence-gathering initiatives.<<

story.news.yahoo.com

>>Levin said the finding 'demonstrates that it was the Administration, not the CIA, that exagerated the relations between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida.'<<
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