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Rumsfeld Operated His Own Spy
Thu Jul 17 03:24:03 2003
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Rumsfeld Operated His Own Spy Ring in Pentagon and Used It to 'Engineer' Intelligence

"The Pentagon's innocuously named Office of Special Plans served as a unique, hand-picked group of hawkish defense officials who worked outside regular intelligence channels. According to the Department of Defense, the group was first created in the aftermath of Sept. 11 to supplement the war on terrorism; it was designed to sift through all the intelligence on terrorist activity, and to focus particularly on various al-Qaida links. By last fall it was focusing almost exclusively on Iraq, and often leaking doomsday findings about Saddam's regime. Those controversial conclusions are now fueling the suspicion the obscure agency, propelled by ideology, manipulated key findings in order to fit the White House's desire to wage war with Iraq. " -Salon

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/07/16/intelligence/index_np.html

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Special Briefing on the Nuclear Posture Review

(Special briefing on the results of the Nuclear Posture Review [NPR]. Also participating were Rear Adm. Barry M. Costello, deputy director for Strategy and Policy, Joint Staff; John Harvey, director, Office of Policy, Planning, Assessment and Analysis, Department of Energy; and Richard McGraw, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Slides shown in this briefing are on the Web at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2002/g020109-D-6570C.html . The cover letter forwarding the NPR to Congress was made available during the briefing and is on the Web at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2002/d20020109npr.pdf .)

McGraw: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It's time for a very titillating subject, I'm sure, for all of you: the second Nuclear Posture Review, the first one done in 1994, I think. To give you a briefing and answer your questions is Mr. J. D. Crouch, the assistant secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.

J.D.?

CLICK FULL REPORT:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2002/t01092002_t0109npr.html

DOD ORGANIZATION....
http://www.defenselink.mil/sites/o.html#organization

Did David Kay Engineer WMD Evidence for Bush I -and Is Now Being Called for a Repeat Performance?

Cheryl Seal reports "Whenever David Kay makes the rounds of the Bush-controlled media these days, he is always introduced only as 'former UN chief weapons inspector' and 'senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Research.' In short, Kay skips over several years of his interim history. Why? Maybe because during the 'missing years,' he was Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a company with extremely close ties to the Pentagon and to the Bush administration in particular. A company up to its armpits in post-war Iraqi business, not to mention secret contracts rumored to involve electronic spying. A company in which Kay is rumored to still hold a sizeable chunk of stock, one where he maintains a rich network of inside connections. No conflict of interest here, eh?"
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4430/index.php


Cornerstone Testimony for Bush Administration against Iraq Was Supplied by 'Scientist' Discredited as Evidence Faker in 1995

In 1995, London's "Sunday Times" reported that Iraq was making atomic bombs. The claim was based on documents supplied by exiled Iraqi scientist Khidir Hamza...documents which were proven to be fakes...just like the faked documents Bush cited in his infamous speech (was that Hamza's handiwork, too?) Many other claims by Hamza's have been exposed as lies. Yet in 2002, tho' known to be a liar for 7 years, Hamza was chosen to be a key "witness," testifying before Congress about the alleged Saddam nuke programs. His effort was well rewarded. Two months ago, Rumsfeld appointed Hamza the new head of the Iraqi nuclear industry. Btw, did we mention? - Hamza and David Kay both worked for the same Bush-enriched defense contractor until recently: SAIC.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/HUG306A.html

She said she would like to see a "truth commission" investigate the dubious Iraq intelligence. "If we are a country that upholds freedom and freedom of speech, we should investigate so we can have confidence our system works."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/17/national/17VOIC.html 

• IT IS TIME FOR THE TRUTH — David Brownlow, Thu Jul 17 03:45