Democrats Subvert War Intelligence (Remember "The Treason Memo"?)

Insight On The News ^ | J. Michael Waller | Dec. 22, 2003

[Howlin]

Is that the same guy that the Bush White House didn't want to reappoint?

[Sam Hill]

"For example, the FBI Niger investigation was done solely at the request of the vice chairman"

Again, this is a reference to Rockefeller getting Mueller and the FBI invovled in March, 2003. The so-called "FBI investigation."

It does NOT refer to sending Wilson to Niger.

[Sam Hill]

That's our hero:

Mohamed ElBaradei

Controversy

ElBaradei has served as the Director General for the IAEA for two terms since December 1, 1997, and is now set for a third term after the current US administration reluctantly reversed its opposition to him in June 2005. According to the Washington Post [1] several intercepts were made, on ElBaradei's phone calls concerning Iran's nuclear program, in which the Bush administration hoped to find information that would help to remove ElBaradei as director of the IAEA. ElBaradei has questioned the U.S. rationale for the war in Iraq since the 2003 Iraq disarmament crisis, when he, along with Hans Blix, led a team of UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, seeking evidence of weapons of mass destruction. He is also accused by the US for his lenient approach in dealing with the Iranian program.

There is no rival candidate for the upcoming term, though the US tried to convince Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who declined, to run for the job. The decision of the IAEA board of governors was still postponed through May 2005. [2] On 9 June, the US dropped its objections after a meeting between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ElBaradei, which opened the way to approval by the IAEA Board of Governors meeting on 13 June. [3]

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October surprise

Ten days before the 2004 US presidential election, a query by ElBaradei about 377 tons of missing explosives in Iraq surfaced in what many pundits had referred to as the then-expected "October surprise".

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Notice how injected himself ten days before the election to try to win it for Kerry.

Why is such an important position held by someone named Mohammed?

[Howlin]

I'd like to read this article:

Bush Administration Questions Timing of IAEA Weapons Letter ...
Bush Administration Questions Timing of IAEA Weapons Letter - October 26, 2004 -
The New York Sun - NY Newspaper.
www.nysun.com/article/3783 - Similar pages

but I don't subscribe. Does anybody?

[Mo1]

Grrrrr .. this is the 5th time I've tried to post this


Yes, they were against him because he was a COMPLETE failure

U.S. Opposes Reappointment of ElBaradei to IAEA
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/4/27/163315.shtml


U.S. opposes reappointment of chief U.N. nuclear inspector, prompting agency to defer decision
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20050427-1428-nuclearagency-elbaradei.html



then dropped it

U.S. Drops Opposition to IAEA Chief
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060701542.html

Oh and check out this hit piece

March 25, 2005
Bolton's Wrath: Angry at ElBaradei for Questioning US Intel, Bolton Tried but Failed to Block ElBaradei's Reappointment
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000402.html

[Sam Hill]

I suspect it is similar to this piece:

Is the U.N. Meddling in the U.S. Presidential Election?
http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/wm596.cfm?renderforprint=1

[GOPJ]

Clinton-era personnel reforms allowed officials of his administration to burrow into vital Pentagon posts as careerists, administration officials say, where they have been maneuvering to keep Bush loyalists out of key positions and/or undermine their authority while pushing their own political agendas that run contrary to those of the president. This network, Insight has discovered, extends to the Pentagon's outer reaches such as the National Defense University and far-flung academic and influential policy think tanks, or "CINC tanks," serving the commanders ("CINCs") of the U.S. military theaters around the world [see "Clinton Undead Haunting Pentagon," June 17, 2002].

Clean house, get a big broom and sweep the trash out. If Clinton placed them, they're more loyal to him than to the country.

[Howlin]

The problem is that just before he left office, Clinton converted a lot of his political appointees to "careerist" positions.

The Bush administration went to Congress to ask that they be able to fire them, but Congress denied that on the grounds that they were untouchable; all the Bush White House could do was move them into lateral positions or deadend jobs. Evidently they couldn't find closets for all of them, so here they are, still doing the dirty work for Bill and Hillary.

[Sam Hill]

Well Mellon is working for some broadband company now -- LOL.

So either they found a way to get rid of him, or he decided to make big bucks.

[TASMANIANRED]

bump

[Howlin]

Now this is interesting:

In the C3I office, where he held a civilian rank equivalent to a three-star general, Mellon worked on intelligence-policy issues, or in the words of a former colleague, Cheryl J. Roby, "things like personnel, training and recruiting for intelligence." The office is under the purview of the undersecretary of defense for policy, a post now held by conservative Douglas J. Feith

Now, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence Committee issued its report last year (and Roberts issued a report attacking Wilson), Jay Rockefeller attacked Doug Feith!

--->   "We've done a little bit of work on the Number-three guy in the Defense Department, Douglas Feith, part of his alleged efforts to run intelligence past the intelligence community altogether ... and was he running private intelligence failure, which is not lawful?" Mr. Rockefeller said Friday at the joint press conference with committee Chairman Pat Roberts, Kansas Republican.
    "The committee's report fails to fully explain the environment of intense pressure in which the intelligence community officials were asked to render judgments," Mr. Rockefeller said.
    At issue is a special team Mr. Feith set up after the September 11 attacks to examine any linkage between Saddam Hussein's regime and international terrorists, including Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda. Mr. Feith's personnel examined years of intelligence reports on Iraq-al Qaeda contacts, put them into a briefing and delivered it to the CIA, which was compiling a report in 2002 called "Iraqi Support for Terrorism."
    Defense officials, who asked not to be named, said yesterday that Mr. Rockefeller's charges against Mr. Feith are not supported by his own bipartisan report.

Pentagon challenges Rockefeller on Feith hit

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Rockefeller defended his staff and the outrageous document itself, calling it a "private memo that nobody saw except me and the staff people that wrote it for me."

Does anyone know if Rockefeller still has the same staff as when the memo was written?

[Sam Hill]

"[ElBaradei] refused to endorse assertions by Washington that Tehran was working to make nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for generating electricity."

He sounds like exactly the right man for the job. </sarc>

[Howlin]

I'm sure he does; once they get a good group together who will do their dirty work, they rarely let them go.

[Mo1]

Why do you think many in the UN want to keep him

They media is trying to get the public to believe this guy is telling the truth over the President

The President may have his faults .. but he is not a COMPLETE failure like ElBaradei

[Sam Hill]

"Why do you think many in the UN want to keep him"

And you know it isn't just hatred of the US--though of course that plays a part.

All of this nuclear arms stuff is big, big money.

As you may know, all of Niger's uranium deals--for instance--go through French banks. (In fact, most of Africa's money finds its way through French banks.)

The Oil-For-Food scandal was not the exception--it is the rule. It's the way the UN works.

They don't care if nuclear weapons get into the hands of maniacs, as long as they get their share of the baksheesh.

[nuffsenuff]

Whoa! It's all linked!

[Mo1]

The Oil-For-Food scandal was not the exception--it is the rule. It's the way the UN works

Bingo .. there was BIG money in that deal

And I am sure many from the UN and other places would love nothing more then to make the President and his Administration look like fools

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Bush suspected that the UN was messing with our presidental election. Here's a story.

Here

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Thanks. Damn