FORGERY OF IRAQ-WAR-JUSTIFYING DOCUMENTS
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FORGERY OF IRAQ-WAR-JUSTIFYING DOCUMENTS DONE IN THE UNITED STATES, SAYS FORMER TOP US INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL ON LOS ANGELES RADIO PROGRAM
http://www.ianmasters.org/
Vincent Cannistraro is the former Director of National Security Council Intelligence under Ronald Reagan (’84-’87) and the former Chief of Operations of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, who lead the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. He was interviewed today on Ian Masters' Background Briefing radio program, which broadcasts from Los Angeles, California on public radio. In the course of the interview, Cannistraro asserted that the famous forged "Niger documents," cited by President George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address as proof of Saddam Hussein's efforts toward the development of nuclear-weapons which would threaten America, were forged in the United States. When interviewer Ian Masters asked if he would name the person or persons involved in the forgery, Cannistraro declined. Masters pressed, asking Cannistraro if he would respond to the proffered name of a well-known national security operative, who had been fired from the Reagan National Security Council and was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. Cannistraro responded by saying "you're very close." The person about whom Mr. Cannistraro made that comment has been described by the BBC as an "ultra neo-conservative," who enjoys strong ties to the Vice President's office and to the Pentagon. These forged documents are significant, because they justified, in part, the unilateral "pre-emptive" attack on Iraq, which--two-years on--has cost over 1,500 American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury and, many journalists and commentators believe, unprecedented loss of American prestige worldwide, and a hopeless Iraqi quagmire, which define the worst foreign-policy debacle in American history. The audio of the full interview is in various forms at www.ianmasters.org. (Interview aired on Background Briefing 11am 4.3.05--journalists may use the interview content, but must attribute Ian Masters and Background Briefing as the source.)
Dr. John C. Green on how religion and politics seem to have fused in Republican party leadership and how it is manifested in the recent spectacle over the removal of a feeding tube, which kept Terri Schiavo's body alive, in spite of the fact that her mind had been in a persistent vegetative state for fifteen years. Dr. Green is the director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron. Green has done extensive research on American religion and politics. He is co-author of The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), The Bully Pulpit: the Politics of Protestant Clergy (University Press of Kansas, 1997), and Religion and the Culture Wars (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996). In addition, he has published more than sixty scholarly articles and some thirty-five essays in the popular press. He is a contributing editor for http://www.beliefnet.com.
Coleman McCarthy on the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Coleman McCarthy is a veteran peace activist, animal advocate and educator who founded and directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, DC. He was a columnist for The Washington Post from 1969 to 1997. McCarthy is the author of All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence and editor of two anthologies, Solutions to Violence and Strength Through Peace: the Ideas and People of Nonviolence.
http://www.ianmasters.org/
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Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.)
(governing disclosures that could expose confidential Government agents)
http://foi.missouri.edu/bushinfopolicies/protection.html
Controversy surrounds the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/leak.htm
White House staff put on notice
Democrats maintain pressure for special prosecutor
Friday, October 3, 2003 Posted: 6:16 PM EDT (2216 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/03/leak.main/
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BLOCKBUSTER ALERT!!! Who Forged Niger Documents to Send Americans to Die in War on False Pretext?
"If I Said Michael Ledeen?"
"You'd Be Very Close!"
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/
=================
AlterNet: Who is Michael Ledeen?
... version contained a quote that was erroneously attributed to Michael Ledeen.
Most Americans have never heard of Michael Ledeen, but if the United States ...
LEAKGATE...LEAKER??? HUMMM!!!
Editor's Note: This is a revised and corrected version of this story. The earlier version contained a quote that was erroneously attributed to Michael Ledeen.
Most Americans have never heard of Michael Ledeen, but if the United States ends up in an extended shooting war throughout the Middle East, it will be largely due to his inspiration.
A fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Ledeen holds a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. He is a former employee of the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council. As a consultant working with NSC head Robert McFarlane, he was involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair -- an adventure that he documented in the book "Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair." His most influential book is last year's "The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win."
Ledeen's ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. His views virtually define the stark departure from American foreign policy philosophy that existed before the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America's manifest destiny. Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimator of the American occupation of Iraq.
Now Michael Ledeen is calling for regime change beyond Iraq. In an address entitled "Time to Focus on Iran -- The Mother of Modern Terrorism," for the policy forum of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) on April 30, he declared, "the time for diplomacy is at an end; it is time for a free Iran, free Syria and free Lebanon."
With a group of other conservatives, Ledeen recently set up the Center for Democracy in Iran (CDI), an action group focusing on producing regime change in Iran.
Quotes from Ledeen's works reveal a peculiar set of beliefs about American attitudes toward violence. "Change -- above all violent change -- is the essence of human history," he proclaims in his book, "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago." In an influential essay in the National Review Online he asserts, "Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically ... it is time once again to export the democratic revolution."
Ledeen has become the driving philosophical force behind the neoconservative movement and the military actions it has spawned. His 1996 book, "Freedom Betrayed; How the United States Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away," reveals the basic neoconservative obsession: the United States never "won" the Cold War; the Soviet Union collapsed of its own weight without a shot being fired. Had the United States truly won, democratic institutions would be sprouting everywhere the threat of Communism had been rife.
Iraq, Iran and Syria are the first and foremost nations where this should happen, according to Ledeen. The process by which this should be achieved is a violent one, termed "total war," a concept pioneered by the 19th century Prussian general, Karl von Clausewitz in his classic book "On War."
Ledeen's take on this idea is wedded to ideology. In summarizing his book "The War Against the Terror Masters" on the American Enterprise Institute Web site, he writes: "We wage total war because we fight in the name of an idea, and ideas either triumph or fail ... totally." In his reckoning, force is the only reliable strategy to enforce our ideology on our enemies. In the same summary he claims, drawing inspiration from Machiavelli: "We can lead by the force of high moral example ... [but] fear is much more reliable, and lasts longer. Once we show that we are capable of dealing out terrible punishment to our enemies, our power will be far greater."
Consequently, Ledeen has excoriated both the State Department and the United Nations for their preference for diplomatic solutions to conflict; and the CIA for equivocating on evidence that would condemn "America's enemies" and justify militant action.
"No one I know wants to wage war on Iran and Syria, but I believe there is now a clear recognition that we must defend ourselves against them," Ledeen wrote on May 6 in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Though he appears on conservative outlets like the Fox television network, Ledeen has not been singled out for much media attention by the Bush administration, despite his extensive influence in Washington. His views may be perceived as too extreme for most Americans, who prefer to think of the United States as pursuing violence only when attacked and manifesting primarily altruistic goals toward other nations.
Clearly a final decision has not been made on whether the United States will continue military action in Iran, Syria and Lebanon. But Ledeen has a notable track record. He was calling for attacks against Iraq throughout the 1990s, and the U.S. invasion on March 19 was a total fulfillment of his proposals. His attacks against the CIA and the State Department have contributed to the exclusion of these intelligence bodies from any effective decision making on Iraq. His attacks on Iran, even when Iran was assisting the United States, helped keep the Bush administration from seeking any rapprochement with Tehran. Were it in Ledeen's hands, we would invade Iran today.
Given both his fervor and his influence over the men with the guns, Americans should not be surprised if Ledeen's pronouncements come true.
PNS contributor William O. Beeman teaches anthropology and directs Middle East Studies at Brown University. He is author of "Language, Status and Power in Iran," and two forthcoming books: "Double Demons: Cultural Impediments to U.S.-Iranian Understanding," and "Iraq: State in Search of a Nation."
FORGERY OF IRAQ-WAR-JUSTIFYING DOCUMENTS DONE IN THE UNITED STATES, SAYS FORMER TOP US INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL ON LOS ANGELES RADIO PROGRAM
http://www.ianmasters.org/
Vincent Cannistraro is the former Director of National Security Council Intelligence under Ronald Reagan (’84-’87) and the former Chief of Operations of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, who lead the investigation into the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. He was interviewed today on Ian Masters' Background Briefing radio program, which broadcasts from Los Angeles, California on public radio. In the course of the interview, Cannistraro asserted that the famous forged "Niger documents," cited by President George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address as proof of Saddam Hussein's efforts toward the development of nuclear-weapons which would threaten America, were forged in the United States. When interviewer Ian Masters asked if he would name the person or persons involved in the forgery, Cannistraro declined. Masters pressed, asking Cannistraro if he would respond to the proffered name of a well-known national security operative, who had been fired from the Reagan National Security Council and was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. Cannistraro responded by saying "you're very close." The person about whom Mr. Cannistraro made that comment has been described by the BBC as an "ultra neo-conservative," who enjoys strong ties to the Vice President's office and to the Pentagon. These forged documents are significant, because they justified, in part, the unilateral "pre-emptive" attack on Iraq, which--two-years on--has cost over 1,500 American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives, hundreds of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury and, many journalists and commentators believe, unprecedented loss of American prestige worldwide, and a hopeless Iraqi quagmire, which define the worst foreign-policy debacle in American history. The audio of the full interview is in various forms at www.ianmasters.org. (Interview aired on Background Briefing 11am 4.3.05--journalists may use the interview content, but must attribute Ian Masters and Background Briefing as the source.)
Dr. John C. Green on how religion and politics seem to have fused in Republican party leadership and how it is manifested in the recent spectacle over the removal of a feeding tube, which kept Terri Schiavo's body alive, in spite of the fact that her mind had been in a persistent vegetative state for fifteen years. Dr. Green is the director of the Ray C. Bliss Institute of Applied Politics at the University of Akron and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Akron. Green has done extensive research on American religion and politics. He is co-author of The Diminishing Divide: Religion’s Changing Role in American Politics (Brookings Institution Press, 2000), The Bully Pulpit: the Politics of Protestant Clergy (University Press of Kansas, 1997), and Religion and the Culture Wars (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996). In addition, he has published more than sixty scholarly articles and some thirty-five essays in the popular press. He is a contributing editor for http://www.beliefnet.com.
Coleman McCarthy on the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Coleman McCarthy is a veteran peace activist, animal advocate and educator who founded and directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, DC. He was a columnist for The Washington Post from 1969 to 1997. McCarthy is the author of All of One Peace: Essays on Nonviolence and editor of two anthologies, Solutions to Violence and Strength Through Peace: the Ideas and People of Nonviolence.
http://www.ianmasters.org/
===================================
JOIN LEAKGATE... 100'S OF FILES...
NO WMD IRAQ... ETC....
Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.)
(governing disclosures that could expose confidential Government agents)
http://foi.missouri.edu/bushinfopolicies/protection.html
Controversy surrounds the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/leak.htm
White House staff put on notice
Democrats maintain pressure for special prosecutor
Friday, October 3, 2003 Posted: 6:16 PM EDT (2216 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/03/leak.main/
Wilson sees wife's `outing' as retaliation
http://www.apfn.org/LEAK-GATE/retaliation.htm
Charles Speaks Out
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Charles, I'm getting tired of setting my f-ing pre-sets. Could you stay in one place for awhile?
Welcome back...again :)
- Troy
Good to hear you on the air again, I try to record the show when I can't hear it live due to work.
- Andy
Keep the sunhine coming Charles. Sunshine is a great disinfectant.
- Rich
I am glad to hear you still giving 'em hell and making the truth heard.
- Russell
Save us Charles. Save us from neo-con hell.
- Margo
My 8 year old son that cannot possibly avoid my opinion of Bush asked me the other day who would make a better president, Bush or Bugs Bunny and yah know Charles I had to give that some thought.
Love your show
- Joan
I thank you for your work, your show, and your message and clear opinions. I just found your show last week for the first time. A ray of light through the thick dark clouds!
Thank you for having the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the "machine" and not cave in. This nation needs more rational individuals in the media that aren't afraid to ask the hard questions.
- Jimmy
I truly can't believe I found this station. There literally is no difference between any of the other AM stations anymore. I had been a listerner of K You Know Who since I moved to the Valley in 1984... Yeah!
- Connie
Boy, do I feel safe now that CAT STEVENS was kept out of the country!
I wonder if YOKO is on the watch list?
- Tom
Going abroad in search of monsters to destroy
Just War Theory And Iraq
BLOCKBUSTER ALERT!!! Who Forged Niger Documents to Send Americans to Die in War on False Pretext?
"If I Said Michael Ledeen?"
"You'd Be Very Close!"
http://www.charlesgoyette.com/
=================
AlterNet: Who is Michael Ledeen?
... version contained a quote that was erroneously attributed to Michael Ledeen.
Most Americans have never heard of Michael Ledeen, but if the United States ...
LEAKGATE...LEAKER??? HUMMM!!!
Editor's Note: This is a revised and corrected version of this story. The earlier version contained a quote that was erroneously attributed to Michael Ledeen.
Most Americans have never heard of Michael Ledeen, but if the United States ends up in an extended shooting war throughout the Middle East, it will be largely due to his inspiration.
A fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Ledeen holds a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. He is a former employee of the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security Council. As a consultant working with NSC head Robert McFarlane, he was involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair -- an adventure that he documented in the book "Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair." His most influential book is last year's "The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened. Where We Are Now. How We'll Win."
Ledeen's ideas are repeated daily by such figures as Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. His views virtually define the stark departure from American foreign policy philosophy that existed before the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001. He basically believes that violence in the service of the spread of democracy is America's manifest destiny. Consequently, he has become the philosophical legitimator of the American occupation of Iraq.
Now Michael Ledeen is calling for regime change beyond Iraq. In an address entitled "Time to Focus on Iran -- The Mother of Modern Terrorism," for the policy forum of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) on April 30, he declared, "the time for diplomacy is at an end; it is time for a free Iran, free Syria and free Lebanon."
With a group of other conservatives, Ledeen recently set up the Center for Democracy in Iran (CDI), an action group focusing on producing regime change in Iran.
Quotes from Ledeen's works reveal a peculiar set of beliefs about American attitudes toward violence. "Change -- above all violent change -- is the essence of human history," he proclaims in his book, "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago." In an influential essay in the National Review Online he asserts, "Creative destruction is our middle name. We do it automatically ... it is time once again to export the democratic revolution."
Ledeen has become the driving philosophical force behind the neoconservative movement and the military actions it has spawned. His 1996 book, "Freedom Betrayed; How the United States Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away," reveals the basic neoconservative obsession: the United States never "won" the Cold War; the Soviet Union collapsed of its own weight without a shot being fired. Had the United States truly won, democratic institutions would be sprouting everywhere the threat of Communism had been rife.
Iraq, Iran and Syria are the first and foremost nations where this should happen, according to Ledeen. The process by which this should be achieved is a violent one, termed "total war," a concept pioneered by the 19th century Prussian general, Karl von Clausewitz in his classic book "On War."
Ledeen's take on this idea is wedded to ideology. In summarizing his book "The War Against the Terror Masters" on the American Enterprise Institute Web site, he writes: "We wage total war because we fight in the name of an idea, and ideas either triumph or fail ... totally." In his reckoning, force is the only reliable strategy to enforce our ideology on our enemies. In the same summary he claims, drawing inspiration from Machiavelli: "We can lead by the force of high moral example ... [but] fear is much more reliable, and lasts longer. Once we show that we are capable of dealing out terrible punishment to our enemies, our power will be far greater."
Consequently, Ledeen has excoriated both the State Department and the United Nations for their preference for diplomatic solutions to conflict; and the CIA for equivocating on evidence that would condemn "America's enemies" and justify militant action.
"No one I know wants to wage war on Iran and Syria, but I believe there is now a clear recognition that we must defend ourselves against them," Ledeen wrote on May 6 in the Toronto Globe and Mail.
Though he appears on conservative outlets like the Fox television network, Ledeen has not been singled out for much media attention by the Bush administration, despite his extensive influence in Washington. His views may be perceived as too extreme for most Americans, who prefer to think of the United States as pursuing violence only when attacked and manifesting primarily altruistic goals toward other nations.
Clearly a final decision has not been made on whether the United States will continue military action in Iran, Syria and Lebanon. But Ledeen has a notable track record. He was calling for attacks against Iraq throughout the 1990s, and the U.S. invasion on March 19 was a total fulfillment of his proposals. His attacks against the CIA and the State Department have contributed to the exclusion of these intelligence bodies from any effective decision making on Iraq. His attacks on Iran, even when Iran was assisting the United States, helped keep the Bush administration from seeking any rapprochement with Tehran. Were it in Ledeen's hands, we would invade Iran today.
Given both his fervor and his influence over the men with the guns, Americans should not be surprised if Ledeen's pronouncements come true.
PNS contributor William O. Beeman teaches anthropology and directs Middle East Studies at Brown University. He is author of "Language, Status and Power in Iran," and two forthcoming books: "Double Demons: Cultural Impediments to U.S.-Iranian Understanding," and "Iraq: State in Search of a Nation."
