Former CIA director used Pentagon ties to introduce Iraqi defector

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9165361.htm

A former CIA director who advocated war against Saddam Hussein helped arrange the debriefing of an Iraqi defector who falsely claimed that Iraq had biological-warfare laboratories disguised as yogurt and milk trucks.

R. James Woolsey's role as a go-between was detailed in a classified Defense Department report chronicling how the defector's assertion came to be included in the Bush administration's case for war even after the defector was determined to be a fabricator.

A senior U.S. official summarized portions of the report for Knight Ridder on condition of anonymity because it's top secret. The report said that on Feb. 11, 2002, Woolsey telephoned Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Linton Wells about the defector and told him how to contact the man, who'd been produced by an Iraqi exile group eager to oust Saddam. Wells said he passed the information to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Woolsey's previously undisclosed role in the case of Maj. Mohammad Harith casts new light on how prominent invasion advocates outside the government used their ties to senior officials in the Bush administration to help make the case for war.

[KittyWampus]

1. Didn't Know This Was Coming Out

didn't Clinton appoint Woolsey also?

[TahitiNut]

2. Yup. James Woolsey is a PNACer, member of CFR, Yale graduate ...

... and a real slimeball.

http://www.spongobongo.com/em/nm/eme9935.htm

[TahitiNut]

3. Woolsey was Chalabi's lawyer ... INC, too.

"Law clients have included The I.N.C. and Ahmad Chalabi. Shea & Gardner registered as a foreign agent for the Iraqi National Congress."
http://www.spongobongo.com/em/nm/eme9935.htm

[peacetalksforall]

4. Let's have a list

of major lying OPERATIVES.

Woolsey: - for his yogurt and milk trucks LIE and as a representative for LIARS.

Do you think NBC will fire him?

By the way, whatever happened to the criminal case against Chalabi - what was that break-in and confiscation all about. Chalabi - not at the top in the ruling party, but close, and his friends are at the top - both the Iraqi and PNAC kind.

[UpInArms]

5. I assume the first question is merely rhetorical

but the second:

By the way, whatever happened to the criminal case against Chalabi - what was that break-in and confiscation all about. Chalabi - not at the top in the ruling party, but close, and his friends are at the top - both the Iraqi and PNAC kind.

that was just so that the war drums could be beaten for Iraq and to make Chalabi look like he was no longer tied in to this mal-administration (through the PNACers)