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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: combjelly who wrote (481529)5/17/2009 3:11:13 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1575574
 
Are you claiming that Lawrence Wilkerson is lying? Based on what, exactly?

There is no evidence to suggest he is telling the truth, and doubts have been raised:

Wilkerson’s facts do not add up. Al Libi’s original testimony regarding Iraq-al Qaeda links occurred months before Wilkerson says waterboarding was used to get this admission out of him. We know this because the DIA filed a report saying that it did not trust al Libi’s testimony regarding the training of al Qaeda operatives in Iraq in February 2002 -– two months before Wilkerson says the Bush administration authorized the Egyptians to use harsh interrogation methods on al Libi.

So, when Wilkerson writes that “the [Bush] administration authorized [the] harsh interrogation [of al Libi] in April and May of 2002” and al Libi “had not revealed any al Qa’ida-Baghdad contacts” until then, he is clearly wrong. Al Libi, according to the DIA, first discussed this putative tie between the Iraqi regime and al Qaeda before Wilkerson says that harsh interrogation techniques were authorized by Vice President Cheney.
-- Thomas Joscelyn
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