Posted on 02/15/2006 6:27:47 AM PST by jmc1969
Secret audiotapes of Saddam Hussein discussing ways to attack America with weapons of mass destruction will be the subject of an ABC "Nightline" program Wednesday night, a former federal prosecutor told Cybercast News Service.
The tapes are being called the "smoking gun" of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. The New York Sun reported that the tapes have been authenticated and currently are being reviewed by the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The panel's chairman, Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), declined to give the Sun details of the content or context of the recordings, saying only that they were provided to his committee by former federal prosecutor John Loftus.
Loftus has been tight-lipped about the tapes, telling the Sun only that he received them from a "former American military intelligence analyst."
On Tuesday night, Loftus told Cybercast News Service that ABC's "Nightline" would air an "extensive report" on the tapes Wednesday night. Loftus also described an ABC News "teaser," which reportedly contains audio of Saddam Hussein discussing ways to attack America with WMD. "Nightline will have a lot more," said Loftus.
This year's Intelligence Summit will bring together top terrorism experts including Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of "Funding Evil," 9/11 investigator Jean-Charles Brisard, author of "Zarqawi: the New Face of Al-Qaeda;" former CIA agent Michael Scheurer, author of "Imperial Hubris," and Richard Marcinko, former head of SEAL Team Six, and author of "Rogue Warrior."
The Intelligence Summit will be featured not only in the Wednesday Nightline report but also on ABC World News Tonight.
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Can't wait for that 60 Minutes show with Dan Rather to debunk the audiotapes based on typewritten evidence faxed to him from a Texas Kinko's.
Uh oh...MSM and DUmmie suicide alert
Watch for strategic editing and strategic commentary.
Intresting to see how ABC handels this. My guess is they will spin as hard as they can to dismiss the tapes as phoney.
They have to be phony tapes. There were no WMD, Saddam had no WMD so therefor the tapes have to be phonies. (/S/)
oh geez! not another "smoking gun of WMDs" article!
I'm trying to think of how the libs will try to spin out of this besides just ignoring it.
I would expect that since it is ABC, we can expect this to be a limited exposure to any revelations, and then they will do whatever they can to instill doubt about whatever they reveal on the air.
ABC is no friend to our country, and Loftus should be considered negligent or worse to give them the scoop
Based on their morning radio news breaks, ABC is spinning this as follows: The tapes are authentic. They show that Saddam was not a threat to the US.
Of course, this is total BS.
How so?
"I would expect that since it is ABC, we can expect this to be a limited exposure to any revelations, and then they will do whatever they can to instill doubt about whatever they reveal on the air."
Yuo sure said that well.
Out local radio station has been carrying this for two days now. At first it was "the smoking gun! proof that Saddam was deliberately hiding things from the UN"
By the second segment, it was "well, if this is all true, why didn't it come from the White House? Why did it come from another source?" (trying to piggy back on the Cheney-media communication issue)
This morning the spin doctors had taken over: these tapes show Saddam lying to the weapons inspectors, but only to protect Iraq from those big meanies in Iran. He didn't have WMD, but made the illusion that he did because it was easier to hint that he did to fool the west than just try to dupe Iran (those Iranians are just too smart). Then after 9/11 he couldn't convince the US of the truth. Actual quote: "he got caught in his own lie". So bottom line, it's still Bush's fault!
Their news report ended with the statement: "But Saddam said that Iraq would not be responsible for any attack."
Now you know and I know he meant that Iraq would somehow cover its involvement. But ABC appeared to be using the line to once again suggest that Iraq posed no direct threat to America.
ABC: The tapes are accurate, but fake.
Smoking gun you Democratic bitches!
Y"ou mean another seeBS unnamed source of 'unimpeachable' credentials?"
Mary Mapes, reporting for duty.
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