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To: Brumar89 who wrote (148272)	9/30/2002 8:37:54 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>> Scowcroft isn't in the administration is he? << Newsmax puzzled. Brent Scowcroft: What Does He Know? chronwatch.com But what is baffling - and missing from many press accounts - is that Brent Scowcroft holds a position in the current Bush administration. He is chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), the panel the overseas the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies. The irony of this is that some observers find it highly unusual that Scowcroft, a de facto member of the administration, would be penning columns criticizing administration policies and plans. Additionally, as head of PFIAB, wouldn't Scowcroft be knowledgeable of the available intelligence about Iraq that the president holds? The War Within Washington alternet.org Scowcroft, who has access to top-level intelligence as the chairman of the Presidential Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), also dismissed any suggestion of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. "[T]here is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks," he wrote. "Indeed, Saddam's goals have little in common with the terrorists who threaten us, and there is little incentive for him to make common cause with them." It was a move designed to infuriate the hawks who have repeatedly referenced such links as a sound justification for a war.