More regarding the Kwiatkowski-LaRouche connection.
Note the 2004 date:
May 30, 2004 - Iraq Myths
"..All the stories about it appear to share a single source, Karen Kwiatkowski, a now-retired lieutenant colonel who worked in the Pentagon - but not in the OSP - on North Africa. So how would she know what went on there?
The answer she gave me was that she regularly had 'conversations in the hallway' with someone who did, an official called John Trigilio.
Trigilio denied any such conversations took place, saying neither he nor his colleagues ever met an INC defector.
Why would Kwiatkowski make it up? On the one hand, she has written for Pat Buchanan's extreme right-wing journal, the American Conservative, and described herself to me as a 'conservative anarchist'.
Meanwhile, her story first surfaced - with her name concealed - in a dubious outlet: the Executive Intelligence Review, a virulently anti-semitic magazine run by conspiracy theorist, Lyndon LaRouche.
Kwiatkowski told me she admired LaRouche's work and admitted giving his editor, Jeff Steinberg, an interview.
However, she also needed an echo chamber. She got one in Patrick Lang, former Middle East chief of the Defence Intelligence Agency, who supplied quotes endorsing her story.
He sent an email to several journalists, enclosing the transcript of the Kwiatkowski-Steinberg interview. 'Jeff Steinberg is a first-rate scholar,' Lang wrote. 'I am not concerned where he works.'
Lang popped up again, last week with the claim that he had learnt from his associates that Chalabi and his defectors were an Iranian intelligence scam, 'one of the most sophisticated and successful intelligence operations in history'.
I assume Lang, who is widely admired in Washington, would not knowingly disseminate inaccurate information. But it is possible his political beliefs may make him credulous.
The Pentagon, he said, had been seized by extremists, 'Zionist revisionists', whose goal was to 'de-Arabise' the Middle East. Ariel Sharon's Likud party had in effect directed America's invasion of Iraq, and the way to visualise Likud's power was as 'a steel barbell, with one ball in Israel and another in the Pentagon, among the neo-conservatives'.
It is, I suppose, interesting that such groups exist, if we can take Rose's word for it, but this is lunatic fringe stuff - Lyndon Larouche; the Likud party directing America's invasion of Iraq. The strongest language Rose manages about this is that it's "contentious", which seems a little understated.
It's certainly true though that there are hidden agendas within the media as far as Iraq is concerned. Take Rose himself:
Now, with the war fought and Iraq on the brink of catastrophe, does any of this matter? It does: for the propaganda battles continue to resonate politically. Disinformation helped to drag Britain and America into a war.
On the brink of catastrophe? Don't you just wish. And this line about disinformation dragging us into the war....wasn't there something about Saddam not complying with UN resolutions? Just a vague far-off memory now of course, as the media line hardens around the idea that the sole reason for war was that Tony lied to us about Saddam having WMDs ready to fire in 45 minutes.... ~ Mickey Hartley http://mickhartley.typepad.com/blog/2004/05/
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The item excerpted below was paid for by the Vote For Lyndon LaRouche 2004 campaign: http://larouchein2004.net/index.html
Children of Satan II: The Beast-Men - The Return of the Beasts - by Jeffrey Steinberg
http://larouchein2004.net/pages/other/2004/040103cosarticle2.htm
Prologue: A Trail of Two Beasts
"....Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski (USAF-ret.), who served for eight months under Luti at the NESA shop, confirmed that Luti made no secret of the fact that he was being tasked by “Scooter.” On at least one occasion at a staff meeting, Luti made extremely deprecating remarks about his ostensible boss, Under Secretary Feith, further underscoring that his actual boss was Vice President Cheney. ....
Lt. Col. Kwiatkowski, who was cited above, reported that in November or December 2002, she escorted another delegation of top Israeli military officials to private meetings in Feith's office. She noted that the Israelis knew precisely how to get from the Pentagon entrance to Feith's office suite, and one member of the group actually barged into Feith's private office. The delegation was specifically waved off from signing the guest register in Feith's office, even through new regulations, post-9/11, had made such sign-in mandatory.
She also reported that, when she arrived at the NESA office in the late spring of 2002, there were reports circulating among staffers that the unit was under investigation for passing classified material on to Israel. Three other high-ranking former U.S. intelligence officials confirmed this report. .....
Thank you very much for all the material which you posted. I do not have the time to go over it right now, but I will certainly come back to review it closely.
At any rate, I can now say that there is evidence of a link.
For some reason, ever since I was about 17, I've had a deep dislike of LaRouche and everything he stands for. It is a gut level thing, that I really didn't understand until fairly recently. The man is Evil Incarnate (one of several who are).