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• The CIA operation that should have prevented the Iraq war

  - 2008-02-04

  AMMAN AFP — When Saad Tawfiq watched Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations on February 5 2003 he shed bitter tears as he realised he had risked his life and those of his loved ones for nothing. As one of Saddam Hussein's most gifted engineers, Tawfiq knew that...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, Iraq, MARKETING, SADDAM, scientist

• One cheer for the hot new memoir: the uses of George Tenet's book

  - 2007-05-28

  FORMER CIA director George Tenet's new book is the most effective bipartisan initiative of the year. His At the Center of the Storm has been clobbered by the Left and the Right, and rightly so. The Left criticizes him for not speaking up when he was in power if he...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, CIA, Iraq, Saddam

• Sen. Carl Levin Twists Record to Attack Bush

  - 2006-09-18

  A charge made by Sen. Carl Levin (D.-Mich.) on September 8 that President Bush asked Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet "to manipulate" intelligence in October 2002 to justify going to war in Iraq does not withstand close scrutiny, but does raise questions about Levin's candor. In October 2002, there...

  Tags: al-Qaeda, attack, Bush, CIA, Iraq, president, Saddam, SECURITY, Sen., U.S., U.S. Senate

• Chronicle of a war foretold: truth was a casualty long before we invaded Iraq

  - 2006-09-01

  AT A JUNE CONGRESSIONAL hearing examining the march to war in Iraq, Republican congressman Walter Jones posed "a very simple question" about the administration's manipulation of intelligence: "How could the professionals see what was happening and nobody speak out?" Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff, a...

  Tags: Al-Qaeda, Bush, CIA, Iraq, Saddam, SECURITY, U.N., U.S.

• Commentary: War powers, war lies: A series

  - 2006-06-30

  During the waning days of the Soviet Union, an era of goldbricking employees and a valueless ruble, the rueful motto of the Socialist laborer was: We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us. The situation with Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction was roughly the same: Saddam pretended...

  Tags: CIA, Iraq, Saddam

• Saddam's FM denies being CIA spy

  - 2006-03-22

  AMMAN AFP — Naji Sabri Hadithi, Iraq's foreign minister under Saddam Hussein, denied a report he provided the CIA with information about the deposed regime's alleged weapons of mass destruction. "The information carried by the American channel NBC are lies, totally fabricated and unfounded," Sabri Hadithi told AFP in...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, CIA, invasion, Iraq, NBC Universal Inc., Saddam

• Saddam's FM was on CIA payroll

  - 2006-03-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — Iraq's foreign minister under Saddam Hussein spied for the CIA before the US-led invasion in 2003 in return for a 100,000 dollar payment, a US television station reported. In September 2002, Iraq's top diplomat Naji Sabri traded information on Hussein's alleged weapons program for cash in...

  Tags: CIA, FINANCE, Iraq, NBC Universal Inc., payroll, Saddam, TVs

• Libby indictment damages administration's credibility

  - 2005-11-16

  Mohawk, John Indian Country Today Lakota Times 11-16-2005 The spinmasters in print media and talk radio have been breathing a sigh of relief since the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. did not accompany indictments of others, most especially President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove. The story of what happened,...

  Tags: administration, Bush, CIA, FINANCE, Investment, Iraq, Saddam

• Libby indictment damages administration's credibility

  - 2005-11-16

  Mohawk, John Indian Country Today Lakota Times 11-16-2005 The spinmasters in print media and talk radio have been breathing a sigh of relief since the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby Jr. did not accompany indictments of others, most especially President Bush's political...

  Tags: administration, Bush, CIA, FINANCE, Investment, Iraq, Saddam

• Plamegate & the Times-CFR Cabal

  - 2005-11-14

  After more than two years of dilly-dallying, lying, and obfuscating, we're coming into the home stretch of the official "investigation" into who in the Bush administration "outed" covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, a felony offense. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is wrapping up his federal grand jury inquiry, and speculation is...

  Tags: CIA, invasion, Iraq, Saddam