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To: LindyBill who wrote (170548)	6/21/2006 4:06:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793972

I have just watched "Frontline" try to assassinate Cheney over what we have done since 911. It was a liberal "hit piece" starring all the usual left wing critics of the Admin I saw it too. It was fairer and more nuanced than what passes for most Democratic commentary, but I wondered if anybody on the White House's side of affairs had seriously tried to counter-spin the CIA's extreme CYA job. It would have been better if Rumsfeld and Cheney could have spoken for themselves. But then, they still have jobs and are busy. I wonder if Frontline tried to get Wolfowitz or Perle? The coverage of the Plame affair was ludicrous. At least they mentioned Cheney's questions, "did his wife send him on a junket?" etc, which were reasonable. But they never pointed out that a Vice President, no matter his politics, has a right to have his queries of the CIA investigated by an intelligence professional, who will come back and write a report and keep quiet, not tell one thing to the CIA and write another version of it in the NY Times. The whole overtone of noble professionals at the CIA bullied by the "Dark Side" at the White House was bathetic. Such innocents, the CIA, they wouldn't know from politics!

To: LindyBill who wrote (170548)	6/21/2006 4:09:43 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793972

Lawyer Representing Saddam Hussein Killed Jun 21 3:59 AM US/Eastern Email this story By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq One of Saddam Hussein's lawyers was shot to death Wednesday after he was abducted from his home by men wearing police uniforms in Baghdad, court and police officials said. Khamis al-Obeidi, who represented Saddam and his half brother Barzan Ibrahim in their eight-month-old trial, was abducted from his house at 7 a.m., said Saddam's top lawyer, Khalil al-Dulaimi. His body was found shot to death on a street near the Shiite slum of Sadr City, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said. Chief prosecutor Jaafar al-Moussawi confirmed that al-Obeidi had been killed, although he did not provide any details. Unlike al-Dulaimi, who shuttles between Amman, Jordan, and the Iraqi capital, al-Obeidi chose to continue to living in Baghdad during the trial despite the capital's tenuous security and the killing of two members of the defense team last year. Al-Dulaimi blamed the Interior Ministry, which Sunnis have alleged is infiltrated by so-called Shiite death squads, for the killing. "We strongly condemn this act and we condemn the killings done by the Interior Ministry forces against Iraqis," he said, adding that U.S.- led forces also bore responsibility because the war had allowed Shiite militias to gain influence in Iraq. Sunni Arabs were dominant under Saddam's rule but lost power to majority Shiites after his ouster in April 2003. A dozen masked gunmen abducted defense lawyer Saadoun al-Janabi from his Baghdad office the day after the trial's opening session in October. His body was found the next day with two bullets in his head. Nearly three weeks later, defense lawyer Adel al-Zubeidi was assassinated in a brazen daylight ambush in Baghdad. A colleague who was wounded fled the country. The defense has asked Iraqi authorities for increased protection and threatened to boycott the trial unless this was provided. The deposed leader and the other seven are charged with killing more than 140 Shiites in the town of Dujail in 1982. ___ Associated Press writers Hamza Hendawi, Sinan Salaheddin and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.

To: LindyBill who wrote (170548)	6/22/2006 3:38:50 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793972

I finally caught the Frontline Cheney piece on rerun. I think that what they said about the Atta story is that the 9/11 Commission concluded it wasn't true, or rather that there was no basis in fact supporting it, nothing there, and that's accurate. I thought it was pretty fair -- maybe because I've been saying the same things for years (not about Atta, about WMD). Cheney deserves to take a big hit for the information that was used to justify the Iraq war. The yellowcake story, the aluminum tubes story, the mobile weapons labs story, those were all Cheney's babies, and they all peel back to Chalabi and the INC. I hadn't realized that we had no agents in Iraq before the war -- except for the few guys we turned right before the invasion. Which must have made Chalabi seem like a Godsend, especially when he is a master at telling people what they want to hear. I hadn't realized how much of a puppet Judy Miller was, mostly because I hadn't really thought about it, but she was. Ironic that the NYTimes was being used as a house organ for the Office of the Vice President.