Posted on 01/02/2006 3:45:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program.
Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade.
New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" describes secret operations of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.
The major revelation in the book has already been the subject of extensive reporting by Risen's newspaper: the National Security Agency's eavesdropping of Americans' conversations without obtaining warrants from a special court.
The book said Dr. Alhaddad flew home in mid-September 2002 and had a series of meetings with CIA analysts. She relayed her brother's information that there was no nuclear program.
A CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency believed her brother was lying. In all, the book says, some 30 family members of Iraqis made trips to their native country to contact Iraqi weapons scientists, and all of them reported that the programs had been abandoned.
In October 2002, a month after the doctor's trip to Baghdad, the U.S intelligence community issued a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program.
In the book, which quotes extensively from anonymous sources, Risen said the NSA spying program was launched in 2002 after the CIA began to capture high-ranking al-Qaida operatives overseas, and took their computers, cell phones and personal phone directories.
The CIA turned the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses from the material over to the NSA, which then began monitoring the phone numbers — in addition to anyone in contact with the telephone subscribers, the book said, saying this led to an expansion of the monitoring, both overseas and in the United States.
The book said the NSA does not need approval from the White House, the Justice Department or anyone else in the Bush administration before it begins eavesdropping on a specific phone line in the United States.
In another chapter on a "rogue operation," the book said a CIA officer mistakenly sent one of its Iranian agents information that could be used to identify virtually every spy the agency had in Iran. The book said the Iranian was a double agent who turned over the data to Iranian security officials.
The book said the information severely damaged the CIA's Iranian network, and quoted CIA sources as saying several of the U.S. agents were arrested and jailed.
Jay Rockefeller...Howard Dean...HRClinton...
MSM Treason ...
Every time a bit of good news slips past the msm, the ol' "no WMD" is trotted out again to keep folks in line.
Hopefully, Risen will be sent to prison for providing this secret information to the murderers who want to destroy America and kill Americans.
insert string of expletives - HERE.....
will be back when can speak in coherent terms.....that won't get me banned....
"Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade. '
So according to crAP, the Slimes, and soon the rest of the DNC Whore media, outing this CIA operative is good. Meanwhile the outing (BS outing at that) of that idiot Wilson's wife is bad.
The Old MSM expects us to not see through that?
Time to start outing these traitors in the Old MSM and call them what they are!!!
ROFLLLLLLL!!!
Kraut predicts that Brokeback is seen by 14 people~
ROFLLLLLLLLLL!!
I LOVE THAT MAN!
There is another book coming out from Robert Parry, from AP and Newsweek dishonor, that will be a max barfer.
I saw that he also predicted the dead of Fidel, not that he knows anything secret, he is just overdue.
Krauthammer is a hoot.
Has a familiar ring...Wilson did the same thing.
Another work of fiction like the ones by Richard A. Clarke, Mary Mapes and the 9/11 commission!
He so rocks!
LOL! I thought his list was great-- hope they all come true!!! Killing The Z-thug in Iraq was on his list too wasn't it?
He did say that Iran will have pushed the envelope as far as possible.
hmmmm someone predicted his death....
I love the part about Cuba becoming America's favorite resort! LOL! (a Club Gitmo pun maybe?)
DAMN! DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT COLLECT $200! GO TO JAIL! BETTER YET, GO BEFORE THE FIRING SQUAD!
Arrest the author, burn the books, and prosecute the NYT and book-publisher to the fullest extent of the law!!!!!
"A CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency believed her brother was lying."
That can't be true. Not with Valerie Plame at the CIA analyzing nuclear programs. I'm sure she believed Iraq didn't have a nuclear program.
Doesn't the CIA\FEDS have to give permission, i.e. vet the book, before it comes out ?
bttt
I don't know that that's actually a law, but something the legal advisors to the publishers recommend to avoid potential lawsuits. These days it seems the publishers don't give a damn if they hurt the Bush Administration-led government.
They are part of the Unholy Alliance.....see this:
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Unholy Alliance : Radical Islam and the American Left
And a very good review:
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Vastly Illuminating, September 25, 2004
| Reviewer: | Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews |
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From another Blog:
Memo from NY Times to Confidential Sources: You're Toast
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Memo from: Bill Keller, Executive Editor The New York Times
To: Our Confidential Sources
re: Screwed, Blued & Tattooed. Sorry.
Gentlemen:
The dozen of you have been of inestimable value to the New York Times and I want you to know that we, the reporters, editors and shareholders, appreciate it. Your willingness to talk with us a year ago about your concerns surrounding NSA eavesdropping on Al Qaida conversations with their operatives in our homeland is evidence of how highly you value a free press.* It's a value we share with you and with all enlightened Americans living within our circulation footprint.
Your willingness to share highly classified information with Jim and Eric before taking it through the normal channels for internal complaints within NSA, CIA and Justice or even up to the congressional oversight committees was commendable. It allowed you to be effective, which as we all know is extremely difficult when one is in a minority position.
You helped us bring fresh light on this Administration's total disregard for American values, in that what is not explicitly legal is by definition illegal when the Administration is conservative. You showed up all those petty people who disagreed with your position, they'll be facing months of hearings and visits with their lawyers while attempting to defend a really useless attempt at defense. Talk about a win/win. Wow!
Even more, though. You can look forward to the day when the program itself is cancelled, thanks to your efforts. As it becomes less effective—I mean, you'd have to be a pretty dense terrorist to continue to depend on phone calls after this!–and the pain of running this formerly covert exercise increases what with the hearings and all, well… it's just natural that it will quietly fade away. Thanks to you!
So, let me pat you on the back and add my "atta boy!" to the congratulations I'm certain you're already enjoying from so many of your friends and neighbors who've heard your story.
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See link for rest...........
ap article now re-titled as
Book: CIA Ignored Info Iraq Had No WMD
So it wasn't Bushes Fault???
He will have a contingent of American Criminal Lairs Union attorneys to represent him. They will argue that Risen is a true patriot by printing these EVIL BUSH Administration secrets to the masses so they can make a unbiased decision about whether Bush and Cheney should be impeached and how soon. They have to keep up this drumbeat because that is all they have going for the RAT party today. Obstructionist, all of them. Committing TREASON.
Will it include more national secrets?
Was this common knowledge before now???
Oh and as for Saddam not having a nuke program for over a decade?? .. what other reason would he need all those tons of uranium for??
Could but extreme Bush bashing for sure. I saw an article that was so vile that I couldn't post it.
Hmmm I recall a story about Saddam's son inlaw spilling the beans
And if I recall .. Saddam let him back in Iraq ...
And had him killed
And if I remember correctly, they whacked him right on the border as he was re-entering Iraq from his families exile.
Alhaddad, Sawsan
5/31/2004 $700.00
Moreland Hills, OH 44022
Cleveland Clinic Foundation/Physici [Contribution]
Transaction itemized by: JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INC
Sawsan Alhaddad Cleveland Clinic/physician $250 2004-10-26
Sawsan Alhaddad
Physician
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
John Kerry
$750 20 Ridgecreek Trl (map)
Moreland Hills, OH 44022
Alhaddad, Sawsan Cleveland Clinic/Physician 250 10/26/2004 OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Cleveland Doctors
Dr. Alil Alhaddad MD,
Dr. Sawson Alhaddad MD,
Dr. Safaa AlHaddad MD,
Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad MD,
Dr. Ali G Alhaddad MD,
Nice. There are certain things in government that should be transparent. This is one of them, and extremely helpful in assessing motives. As always, follow the money trail.
Thanks.
You Rock!!
The big story in that book will be about how, during the Bush administration, rogue NSA employees, without authorization, leaked information to the agents of the press, who then openly supplied information to our enemies, thus destroying successful intelligence-gathering programs and costing our citizens their security and billions of dollars.
Now that would really sink the Bush administration!
/sarcasm
AP Shills for Risen's New Book ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550888/posts
| Editor Parry's Year-End Letter By Robert Parry |
Dear Readers,
The United States is facing a political crisis almost unparalleled in our history, a crisis uniquely dangerous because at its center it is not about a loss of power but about a loss of principle – and even morality.
Instead of following the guideposts of a democratic republic, the U.S. government has veered off into delusions of empire. Instead of promoting international law, it has adopted theories of “preemptive” war. Instead of standing for human rights, it has become known for torture techniques, detentions without trial, and secret prisons.
Yet, this American crisis is also about the manipulation of information – and the failure of the U.S. news media to do its job. Indeed, it is hard to envision that the United States would be in this fix if reporters had asked the tough questions, if they had held dishonest political leaders accountable, if reporters had shown more courage.
But this failure of the U.S. media wasn’t an accident or simply a reaction to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Taming the news media has been a longtime goal of the neoconservative operatives who now dominate George W. Bush’s administration.
For years, these neoconservatives have understood that before they could transform the United States into their dream of a uni-polar empire, they had to gain effective control of the information that flows through Washington – and they had to neutralize the honest journalists who got in the way.
The neoconservatives knew the power that would come from controlling how Americans saw the world, a process they called “perception management.” So, over the past quarter century, the neocons and their political allies invested heavily in building their own news media and intimidating the mainstream press.
That is where our Web site, Consortiumnews.com, comes in.
A decade ago, after working many years as an investigative reporter for mainstream news outlets, such as the Associated Press and Newsweek, I felt that a new kind of media institution was needed, one with the courage to resist the pressures brought to bear on journalists. (I had experienced that pressure in the 1980s and early 1990s while investigating what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal.)
So, in 1995, on the advice of my oldest son, Sam, we turned to a new medium, the Internet. I cashed in my Newsweek retirement account to raise the money to get started and we began building our Web site as a home for well-researched journalistic stories that had no place in the sensationalistic, trivialized news media of the mid-1990s.
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--We laid out the real story behind the myth of Colin Powell, a man whose sterling reputation masked a long record of opportunism.
--We explained how Election 2000 was distorted first by bad reporting, then by inaccurate vote tallies, and finally by more bad reporting.
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Parry is one disgusting puke!
BAWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ok .. back to reading this article
Nice to see Parry reduced to begging for money though.
But I thought he said he
...cashed in my Newsweek retirement account to raise the money to get started and we began building our Web
Must not have been much of a "retirement account," huh?
So now he's FORCED to write a hit piece on GWB.
I hate these SOBs.
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