Posted on 02/07/2006 5:02:09 AM PST by 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.
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there are several interesting links here:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=John%20Loftus
This sounds extremely odd. Why does Congress have them? How did they come into the possession of the man who turned them over? Why isn't this being handled by the proper intelligence professionals?
This is not a job for Congress.
Even a double album can be put on a cd.
Hollywood, the bloggers, and a number of leading edge Dem front groups are already prepping the LZ with this claim, and other variations on "the DNI/DIA/CIA is manufacturing WMD evidence." (Laughable that last part: I doubt any career people at CIA would do anything but destory WMD evidence.) Breaking the WMD news will turn into another Hiss-Chambers case; no Dem will ever cop to its truthfulness, no matter how convincing the evidence is (there is plenty that's tantalizing already). The only question is whether we can convince people who don't follow the news.
That would be a breath of fresh air, and would absolutely move our country in the right (no pun intended) direction.
ONLY after the destruction of the Party of Treason will it be acceptable to split the GOP. Until that day comes any such actions will be destructive to America. Unfortunately we are far from that day since half the electorate is ready to vote RAT even when the RAT candidate is a bona fide traitor.
Do you really think Khaddam would be alive today if he knew something about WMD stockpiles in Syria?
OK
How do you get to the people that don't follow the news? You can't just go to a web forum, everyone on those, pretty much agree with each other.
Umm its called compression, and audio speech is less needy of hi fidelity than music, so more compression can be used. Your burn of Floyd to disk is not the same as taking that same Floyd album and ripping it to MP3 and then putting those files on CD. You'll have room to spare if MP3 files are on the CD.
Call mp3 whatever you want but it's not "good stereo quality."
Give me the WMDs damnit.
Right, how do you?
The answer is, they check in from time-to-time. Typically just a few days before an election or when some media frenzy is going on. Their attention spans are short, their memories are short and their reasoning powers are pretty awful (think, say, 19% popular Perot vote in 1992), and unfortunately for the Republic, they decide elections when both bases turn out.
They also get a lot of "news" from Jay Leno, David Letterman, and The Daily Show.
Timing and placement are critical.
Loftus is the "intel guy" on the john batchelor radio show. his track record is, shall we say, marginal.
You evidently haven't been on many of the WMD threads (or the evo-crevo riots) at FR.
If these tapes are accurate why not have a sit down with Saddam and play them.
Then reference the timing of the recordings and ask a couple of key questions.
Allow Saddam to be filmed discussing the tapes and if he basically relents and gives it up, release it to the newscasters.
I would just dare them to try and bury it.
In the last 5 yrs or so, it's safe to say, that freepers, generally agree with each other. I'm sure it's the same on other forums. People tend to gather with those they have things in common with.
LOL! Same thing I was thinking. I remember when Loftus insisted Saddam was assassinated during our first strike on Baghdad, based on what "reliable" sources told him. . .His books are full of footnotes citing anonymous sources, while the sources he names are often anti-US propagandists of the VVAW/VIPS variety. I don't trust Loftus as far as I can throw him. It's possible he has accurate information in this instance, but I wouldn't place much stake on anything he says without independent corroboration from a source with more credibility.
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