Posted on 05/08/2006 11:14:24 AM PDT by Enchante
"The same unit [the Office of Special Plans] that fed Chalabi's intelligence on WMD to Rumsfeld was also feeding him Chalabi's stuff on the prospects for postwar Iraq," said a leading US government expert on the Middle East. Says a former US ambassador with strong links to the CIA: "There was certainly information coming from the Iraqi exile community, including Chalabi--who was detested by the CIA and by the State Department--saying, 'They will welcome you with open arms.'"
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Posting this article from "The Nation" which does not seem to have been posted on FR previously (as far as I can tell from a search). Here the unnamed "former US ambassador with strong links to the CIA" is not quoted specifically about WMD issues but rather about Chalabi and the Iraqi exiles; nonetheless, I think this is another indication that Joe Wilson had shopped his tales to numerous reporters BEFORE July 2003 while using his wife's CIA employment as a source of (supposed) credibility for his assertions.
Yup. That's what I think.
This article will probably always be around...but maybe the whole article should be posted on this thread. I know I've gone back after a few yrs and the article is gone.
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Good point, here it is:
Good. Thanks.
If you made two columns, the first one which list the lies of the Bush-haters and a second one listing the lies of Bush, the first column would be packed full and the second one would be empty.
And "former State Department official" is none other than the addled and odious Larry Johnson....
Bookmarked ...thankyou!
But, if the ambassador is Wilson, it certainly comports with the view that Wilson outed his wife himself, and it confirms his existing ties to The Nation, which he later used to start the bogus claim of a White House conspiracy to retaliate against him.
A few minutes ago I post the following reply to Shield on his new old thread on Wilson:
"What is interesting about this and another thread is that we and other conservatives keep chipping away at the bs/secrecy surrounding Wilson/Plame/McTraitor and other hater Americans who set up a coup attempt against our president."
"Eventually this will ooze to the surface, Wilson, Plame, McTraitor and others will be exposed as liars, spinners and coup planners. Due to the power of the MSM they will just get hand slaps personally. However, it drive more nails into the coffin being built for the DNC and current rats in charge."
Larry Johnson and Joe Wilson are somewhere behind most of these anti-Bush stories. It would be quite easy to come up with a Hillaryesque 'vast left-wing conspriracy' that shows the flow of information and most of it would lead back to a handful of Bush-haters.
The Center for International Policy is the Marxist group headed by William Goodfellow, a/k/a Mr. Dana Priest.
I'm becoming more and more convinced that what we have is not a cabal of Bush-haters, but a cabal of double agents. This is not just about nailing Bush - why bother, after the election when he is a lame duck? It's about de-legitimizing the entire U.S. policy in the Middle East. Now think about who benefits from that. The Cold War may not be over, after all.
Yes, this whole incestuous VIPS - CIP - Joe Wilson cabal turns up over and over and over again. Here it's Goodman and Ray McGovern quoted by name, and very likely Joe Wilson and Larry Johnson quoted anonymously. If there were any REAL reporters out there they would have been unravelling this stuff 3 years ago!! Just follow the links among Larry Johnson, Joe Wilson, Ray McGovern, Melvin Goodman, Patrick Lang, William Goodfellow, and the leftist reporters who have been their whores...... THERE SHOULD BE NO MORE UNNAMED SOURCES ALLOWED on this stuff - the MSM must be ripped open and raked over the coals, every reporter who has flogged these false stories must be made to come clean.
Everything said, by the left, about the importance of Chalabi is nothing but their own spin; not the actual views of our intelligence community. Chalabi, and other Iraq exiles gave information to our intelligence agencies. None of it was taken at face value, none of it was given preference over the totality of the rest of our intelligence. Input, yes, absolute definitive truth, no.
The truth is that anyone the "neocons" ever talked to is determined, as a religious belief by the left, that they were working with those "neocons" to subvert the "facts" to the "neocon" agenda. As if such an agenda was needed to have good reasons to go after Saddam.
Yes. The best evidence of that is the media's repeated claim that Chalabi was the source of the flawed source, "Curveball". Although it's been known for some time, German intel provided him to us, that is rarely reported and the sliming of Chalabi continues.
Five witnesses say that Joe Wilson outted his own wife. Oh, the irony.
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