Posted on 02/11/2007 10:45:07 AM PST by april15Bendovr
Transcript: Former Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith on 'FNS'
Sunday , February 11, 2007
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WASHINGTON — The following is a partial transcript of the Feb. 11, 2007, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, joining us now for an exclusive interview, the man at the center of the controversy about pre-Iraq war intelligence and how it was used by the Bush administration, former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith.
Mr. Feith, welcome to "FOX News Sunday".
FORMER UNDERSECRETARY OF DEFENSE DOUGLAS FEITH: Good to be with you.
WALLACE: The Pentagon inspector general issued a report Friday that was highly critical of your actions back in 2002. It says your office disseminated what it called, quote, "alternative intelligence assessments about links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda that made the case for going to war."
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It was nice to hear a voice of assertive competence for once. Wallace was really trying to sound bite the guy into submission.
"In answer to your question did we ever make the case against the war, the answer is emphatically yes"
"FEITH: No, they didn't. Nobody in my office ever said there was an operational relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda. It's just not correct. I mean, words matter. And people are throwing around loose allegations, vague allegations, based on not reading the words carefully."
"FEITH: Yeah. Well, that's — it's interesting because Steve Hadley asked for the briefing in the presence of George Tenet's deputy. So this business that George Tenet didn't know about it is just factually wrong.
Or put it this way: If he didn't know about it, it's because his deputy didn't tell him about it. So that's nonsense.
Secondly, on this issue of the inspector general saying it wasn't supported by the intelligence, the inspector general's logic is circular. What he is saying is it varied from the intelligence community consensus. Well, of course.
The people in my office were doing the criticism of the intelligence community consensus. By definition, that criticism varied. If it didn't vary, they wouldn't have done the criticism.
It's absurd for the inspector general to say that what we did was not the best intelligence, not because he examined the underlying intelligence, because he didn't, and he admitted that to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday morning. What he said was it wasn't the best intelligence because it disagreed with the intelligence."
Thank you for posting this!
The most likely answer continues to be what it was at the time Feith's working group made their presentation. From Iraq agents who passed it to Mohammed Atta in Prague.
There were working relationships between Iraq and Al Queda. Iraq, like Iran and Saudi Arabia today, worked with available resources to pursue acts against the US, its allies and its interests. Let me be careful in what I say regarding these nations and groups of influence -- they war they pursue against us is fought to provoke, to distract, to annoy -- to play to our internal weaknesses. Some times they will act as if they are on our side (and to a profit and security sense they may be at the time) while at the very same time they work with imans, islamic organizations, corrupt individuals and compromised organizations in our own nations, and certainly with the socialists in Universities, the elitists in their media and the power brokers on the beltway and finance to inculcate hate against us, ad provide money and supplies to bombers and snipers, etc.
A must read article on the Topic
Intelligence Games The Pentagon IG report shows we’re not serious about reform.
National Review ^ | February 09, 2007, 0:22 a.m. | By Andrew C. McCarthy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782263/posts
Statement of Laurie Mylroie to the
National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
July 9, 2003
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing3/witness_mylroie.htm
I think this is key...Legally OJ did not kill Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, but if I had met him an few minutes before the murder I think he would have a knife in his gloved hand.
At least, in the words of Abraham Lincoln "You can fool all of the people some of the time."
We are in one of those periods where Willfulness is strong and respect for Truth weak. The Islamic Warriors know it, sense it, exploit it.
Global Warming is a an example. The citrus crop in California as dead on the tree from the cold, the nation is in an intense cold snap, the last Atlantic hurricane season went by without a significant hurricane making landfall. Despite that, the public, leaders and media displays massive willfulness -- fanaticism, really -- that we are close to doom from global warming.
Other examples of how the Will obscures Truth in our time -- the HATRED of President Bush, the doom-and-gloomism about an economy that has amazingly low unemployment, inflation and which is booming.
And yet the most dangerous willfulness is in the denial that we had just cause to attack Iraq, and just cause -- necessity! -- to continue the war, to at least be in a unified war stance, against the attacking Islam.
I wish Feith would just come right out and say that the Left has been using this distorted information to their political advantage by promoting their interpreted conclusions of the 911 Commission, Iraq Study Group and the Senate Select Intelligence Committee for their personal agenda.
Reminds me also of this quote that liberals our enemy and Democrats are using to thier advantage
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
both of these links are fantastic. I have to find out what has happened to Mylroie in the interim
"Where did the anthrax come from?
The most likely answer continues to be what it was at the time Feith's working group made their presentation. From Iraq agents who passed it to Mohammed Atta in Prague."
That is a most interesting idea. I have never thought to connect that meeting(s) between Atta and the Iraqi agent with the anthrax--a very plausible connection. I had only thought it may have had something to do with the main 9/11 plot.
Wonder if you caught this interview?
The interview is coming on right now Fox News
Did anyone other than those who have already replied watch or are all of my FReeper friends more interested in watching the death of Anna Nicole Smith this weekend?
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