Posted on 02/15/2006 11:14:29 AM PST by excludethis
Government investigators are trying to determine how 12 hours of tape recordings of Saddam Hussein and his aides, acquired by U.S. personnel in Iraq, got into the hands of the organizers of a private "intelligence summit" to be held in D.C. next weekend. John Loftus, a former government prosecutor and self-described whistle-blower, claims the tapes "will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important—and controversial—weapons-of-mass-destruction questions." At one point Saddam muses how vulnerable D.C. would be to a "biological" attack, but adds that Iraq wouldn't do it. House Intelligence Committee chairman Pete Hoekstra is reviewing transcripts to determine if U.S. officials missed WMD evidence after the war. But intel agencies are skeptical. The tapes were taken without permission from an FBI-run translation center, officials say, and are years old. Two government officials, requesting anonymity because of the sensitive subject, say the tapes in no way prove that WMD stockpiles or programs existed at the time of the U.S. invasion or were moved to another country before U.S. troops arrived.
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Anything with the byline "Michael Isikoff" need be first considered as anti-Bush propaganda. Not that I'm much of a Bush defender, but the Isikoff articles are almost 100% made to instruct the liberal establishment how to disregard inconvenient revelations.
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Loftus himself said
last night
on the John Batchelor program
that two administration officials were not pleased
that these tapes were to be released.
It is a bit puzzling why this should be.
After the whole
Libby imbroglio
I do not know
what "administration official" means anymo'
This article is the reason for the existence of the blogosphere.
Yes. And unnamed sources are very useful in this type of denial story.
The key word here is "stockpiles". WMD have been found. One single IED had an estimated 8 million lethal doses of Sarin. Fortunately, it was not deployed correctly and no one was seriously injured by the Sarin.
But clearly Iraq had the capability to take out a city the size of Washington DC, given the right delivery system.
What's also incredible is that our MSM is trying to protect Saddam Hussein while simultaneously trying to bring down the Vice-President during a time of war.
-PJ
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