Posted on 01/02/2006 6:52:15 PM PST by Chickenhawk Warmonger
Who needs a publicist to promote your book when the AP will do it for free? The AP is shilling for James Risen's new book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. In an article titled, "CIA Ignored Info Iraq Had no WMD", posted on yahoo.com, the AP states that the book "describes secret operations of the Bush Administration's war on terror". The articles cites an instance of the CIA sending an Iraqi-American MD to Iraq to talk to her brother about Iraq's nuclear weapons programs. Despite reports of a nuclear weapons program that ended years before, the article reports "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". According to the article, "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.
The article also touches on the most controversial portion of the book - the NSA spying program "exposed" by the New York Times. It's important to note who the spying was directed at according to the article.
"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."
Interestingly enough, the AP article reports one little tidbit left out of the NYT's story:
"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."
The AP has earned quite a reputation of ignoring the positive reports out of Iraq and painting with a broad brush of negativity. They have sunk to a new low by writing a "news" article that is essentially a promotional advertisement for a book. It is just another way for the AP to get a "hit" against the Bush administration. The AP should stick to reporting the news - they have enough trouble with that.
Well coordinated, pre-meditated attacks by the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy.
there was another CIA author on Oreilly tonite re OBL. He really supported going into Iraq. Can't remember his name.
Time for Bush to pull these scumbags' press cards.
Who wrote the article for crAP. I bet it was our ol' buddy Pete Yoast.
I saw the interview, too. The guy on O'Reilly was in the CIA and is a patriot. He's Gary Berntsen who wrote the book, JAWBREAKER about the hunt for bin Laden.
Of course it was a "no name" piece. After all who would attach their name to it?
FR thread posted earlier
New Book Reveals Secret War Operations (NYT&James Risen's Bunk of the Month entry)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550818/posts
samew article also on Yahoo titled as
Book: CIA Ignored Info Iraq Had No WMD
Thanks. I am going to get that book. He was such a great guy on the show.
Did anyone see the poll on how Americans felt about wiretapping to find out about terrorist activities? It was like 96% approval! Whoa.
I guess the main Bush-haters at AP are too radioactive this week after the overtime they put in over the Christmas holidays...
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