Posted on 07/25/2005 10:03:04 PM PDT by Sam Hill
Ex-CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
Monday, March 17, 2003
WASHINGTON — Invoking
the name of a Pentagon whistle-blower, a small group of retired, anti-war CIA officers are accusing the Bush administration of manipulating evidence against Iraq in order to push war while burying evidence that could show Iraq's compliance with U.N demands for disarmament.
The 25-member group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, composed mostly of former CIA analysts along with a few operational agents, is urging employees inside the intelligence agency to break the law and leak any information they have that could show the Bush administration is engineering the release of evidence to match its penchant for war.
VIPS member Ray McGovern, a 27-year CIA veteran who gave intelligence briefings to top Reagan officials before retiring in 1990, said the administration has not made the case that Iraq has ties to Al Qaeda and is providing information that does not meet an intelligence professional's standard of proof.
"It's been cooked to a recipe, and the recipe is high policy," McGovern said. "That's why a lot of my former colleagues are holding their noses these days."
But the CIA said McGovern doesn't have any authority to speak of the quality of intelligence policy-makers are reviewing.
"He left the agency over a decade ago," spokesman Mark Mansfield said. "He's hardly in a position to comment knowledgeably on that subject."
VIPS say their appeals to CIA staff are an attempt to evoke another Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study on U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
Leaking classified national defense information is illegal, and CIA officers, who take a secrecy oath when they join could lose their security clearances or jobs, and may even face prosecution...
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10-19-2004 is what it says on the mouse-over.
He posted another thread, it was removed, so he modified and posted it again - that was removed too. I have the last thread if you'd like me to FRMail it.
Proceed with caution folks he is realtively new to FR. We could be getting set up.
Google has Mad Mammoth's cached home page and shows a sign up date of Oct 19, 2004.
He's banned for 24hrs for violating the posting rules....he posted another thread on this and it was quickly pulled.
"He's banned for 24hrs for violating the posting rules....he posted another thread on this and it was quickly pulled."
That's too bad. He might not have seen the thread I had posted (and that was pulled), and he might have just been trying to do what some (like Howlin) suggested he do--post that email as a separate thread.
Maybe the moderator will reconsider.
Hey Larry if your involved in this traitorous cabal you need to call a press conference and fall on the knife.
Thank you.
I feel bad....I saw his original post and requested that it needed it's own thread...sorry MM..
I am specially sensitive to this since I was banned from one of my favorite sites 7 months ago through a spoofed series of email.
Everyone swore that it was my IP, etc, even thought that was impossible.
So I don't need convincing: it is possible.
Please add me to the pings .. and I'm wondering if it's possible to have one central thread that keeps up with this issue .. there are so many CIA Leak articles that this subject can get buried .. just a thought... maybe Rogue Elements .. The Formers and Ex's ..Sedition Central .. whatever you think and want. Thanks.
MM has contacted me through e-mail...he insists he's the real deal and if anyone wants to conact him frmail me for his addy...
Howlin, please add me to your ping list.
Thank you.
Done.
The thing is, I hate tinfoil. :-)
But I'm looking around for some.
Want to be really scared?
Read ALL of this, sources and all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1448614/posts?page=40#40
That's a good idea. But clicking on the CIA Leak thing at the top of the FR front page is really handy.
CIALEAK as a keyword really narrows the material down. You probably already know this.
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