Bush Names Official to Weapons Commission (investigating US intelligence)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) on Wednesday appointed longtime Pentagon (news - web sites) official Walter Slocombe to an independent commission investigating America's intelligence operations, particularly the flawed prewar information about Iraq (news - web sites)'s weapons of mass destruction.



Bush formed the commission — called the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction — in February after criticism surfaced about whether such weapons existed. Allegations about such weapons were an important factor in the run-up to the war that drove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) from power.


Slocombe will replace Lloyd Cutler, former White House counsel to Presidents Carter and Clinton who has stepped down for personal reasons. Although Cutler will no longer be a member of the commission, he will serve as its counsel and will continue to contribute to its work.


Slocombe served in the Defense Department as undersecretary of defense for policy from 1994 to 2001. He was principal deputy undersecretary for policy from 1993 to 1994, deputy undersecretary for policy planning from 1979 to 1981 and principal deputy assistant secretary for international security affairs from 1977 to 1979.

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more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20040714/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_intelligence_commission

[pinto]

1. Memo to Bush/Slocombe: Pakistan

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3. Memo to Bush/Slocombe: Pakistan

Memo to Bush/Slocombe: Pakistan

Whatever did happen to the man who wired Atta 100,000 a week before 911.

Do you honestly think they want the real answers? Do you wonder why it took 2 years to clean out the National Enquirer building in Boca Raton Fl? Do you think there was something there that they didn't want to find? These things give me a headache....

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/armitageISIatta.htm
>>"If the 9-11 Commission is really looking for a smoking gun, it should look no further than at Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad, the director of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) at the time. In early October 2001, Indian intelligence learned that Mahmoud had ordered flamboyant Saeed Sheikh - the convicted mastermind of the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl - to wire US$100,000 from Dubai to one of hijacker Mohamed Atta's two bank accounts in Florida.... Mahmoud's involvement in September 11 might be dismissed as only Indian propaganda. But Indian intelligence swears by it, and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed the whole story: Indian intelligence even supplied Saeed's cellular-phone numbers.<<

[Tempest]

2. Another Bush fox investigating the hen house

Funny how they left out of the article that Slocombe was a Pentagon adviser in Iraq, and a member of the CPA.