CONGRESS'S Secret Saddam Tapes

New York Sun ^ | February 7, 2006 | Eli Lake

[IrishMike]

"The House Permanant Select Committee on Intelligence is studying hours of audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisors that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's WEAPONS of MASS DESTRUCTION. The committee has already confirmed through the intelligence community that the recordings of saddam's voice are AUTHENTIC, according to it's chairman, REP. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, who would not go into detail about the nature of the conversations or their context." " The audio recordings are part of new evidence the House Intelligence Committee is piecing together that has spurred Mr Koekstra to reopen the question of whether Iraq had the BIOLOGICAL, CHEMICAL and NUCLEAR weapons American weapons inspectors could not turn up." They were provided to his committee by a former Federal prosecutor, John Loftus, who says he received them from a former American military intelligence analyst.

[arasina]

SECRET tapes? Not any more.

[exnavy]

I'm very proud of Mr Hoekstra, I voted for him, he is a good man.

[Coop]

Just over a week away from the supposed release date...

[Archytekt]

if this gets traction and we start to be bring some troops home this summer, could be a bad November for the dims!

[Sybeck1]

Love to see a little egg on some anti-war faces.

[exnavy]

P.S. For anyone who doesn't know, the name is pronounced "hook-stra"

[Abathar]

"Contacted yesterday by The New York Sun, Mr. Loftus would only say that he delivered a CD of the recordings to a representative of the committee, and the following week the committee announced that it was reopening the investigation into weapons of mass destruction."

I need those CD's they use, 12 hours of recording on one disk? Its hard to get a single Pink Floyd album to fit on the ones I burn.

[FreedomPoster]

< crosses fingers>

[peyton randolph]

who says he received them from a former American military intelligence analyst.

The moonbats will claim the tapes are forged. Reality isn't their strong point.

[Wasanother]

And they wonder why the President didn't brief even the entire Intelligence Committee on the Terrorist Surveillance?

[wolfcreek]

Let the Games begin! Squash a Dim 06

[Coop]

Mr. Loftus would only say that he delivered a CD of the recordings to a representative of the committee, and the following week the committee announced that it was reopening the investigation into weapons of mass destruction.

Fascinating. I hadn't made that connection.

President Bush called off the hunt for those weapons last year and has conceded that America has yet to find evidence of the stockpiles.

That's a crock. Our forces found plenty of evidence, including small amounts of chemical weapons. What they did not find were the stockpiles. (Yes, amazingly the Iraqis were not stupid enough to leave them in the areas described publicly by Colin Powell and others months prior to the invasion.)

[guitfiddlist]

The CIA slaps its tiny little forehead:

"And the Iraqis told us all those trucks headed for Syria just before the war were full of milk and cookies for the victims of an earthquake. Who woulda thunk it?"

[coconutt2000]

Probably digital files on the disk, MP3's with a high encoding rate to preserve quality.

Probably also encrypted, requiring a specially provided laptop for playback.

[usmcobra]

"Send them to Syria! The Americans will never look there!" A quick translation.

[SIRTRIS]

SO congress is keepin' secrets from the american people, huh ? geeeeeeee, worse then NSA?

[satchmodog9]

I am sure this will be spun by the RAT leadership.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Why this particular chain of custody? Have some in the intelligence community been sitting on information linking Saddam to WMD's? Nah.

[Flightdeck]

"if this gets traction..."

Over the media's collective dead body.