Struggling to hide the reasons for war

[jbfam4]

Published Friday, August 12, 2005

Struggling to hide the reasons for war

http://cjonline.com/stories/081205/opi_kaul.shtml

By Donald Kaul
MinutemanMedia.org

The "Times" reported that a former CIA officer has filed suit against the agency, saying that prior to the war he gave it information that Iraq had long since abandoned its nuclear weapons program and was selling off hardware. The agency ignored the intelligence, he said, and when he complained it demoted him, then fired him.

The details of the suit are sketchy, largely because the CIA immediately classified it, along with the officer's name. The "Times" got the information through anonymous sources (thereby risking putting more of its staff in jail).


The former officer's lawyer told the "Times" that he had asked the court to declassify his client's suit. The CIA responded by classifying his motion seeking declassification.


The administration wants an elected Iraqi government in place by the end of the year so that it can begin pulling our troops out in time for the American elections when we can reelect the clowns who got us into this mess in the first place.

It will be the first step in abandoning the Iraqis to the chaos that awaits them, and all the blah-blah about establishing a democracy that can serve as a beacon for the Middle East can be consigned to the file labeled "Never Mind," where most Bush promises go.

[JAbuchan08]

1. People act as if any recent revelations of "intelligence fixing"

are shocking - as if the people closest to the inteligence haven't been complaining about its accuracy since it first came out.


That pisses me off.

[wishlist]

2. CIA under Porter Goss is trying to keep a tight lid on these revelations

I think the author is wrong though in this statement:

"The "Times" got the information through anonymous sources (thereby risking putting more of its staff in jail)."

Patrick Fitzgerald prosecuting the Plame leak made it clear that demanding Judy Miller's testimony was appropriate because the govt leaker was probably retaliating AGAINST a whistleblower rather than the leaker being a whistleblower. So the situations are not comparable.

[mzteris]

3. so why doesn't

the guy just call a press conference?