The Lie Factory - OSP (The Karen Kwiatkowski story)

[DoYouEverWonder]

Whose to blame for the war in Iraq? This week the Senate & Bu$hCo is trying to put the blame on the CIA. Now information is starting to trickle into the press about a group most people have never heard of, the Office of Special Plans. It's time to connect the dots, folks. Here's the real story about where Bu$h got his bad intel and how the US went to war for reasons that were based on a pack of lies.



http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html

Jan/Feb 2004

Late last year, a special Mother Jones investigation detailed how, only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.



It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and gold leaves of the Shenandoah hills. On the weather-beaten wood porch of a ramshackle 90-year-old farmhouse, at the end of a winding dirt-and-gravel road, Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski is perched on a plastic chair, wearing shorts, a purple sweatshirt, and muddy sneakers. Two scrawny dogs and a lone cat are on the prowl, and the air is filled with swarms of ladybugs.

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The reports, virtually all false, of Iraqi weapons and terrorism ties emanated from an apparatus that began to gestate almost as soon as the Bush administration took power. In the very first meeting of the Bush national-security team, one day after President Bush took the oath of office in January 2001, the issue of invading Iraq was raised, according to one of the participants in the meeting? -- and officials all the way down the line started to get the message, long before 9/11. Indeed, the Bush team at the Pentagon hadn't even been formally installed before Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of Defense, and Douglas J. Feith, undersecretary of Defense for policy, began putting together what would become the vanguard for regime change in Iraq.

[shraby]

1. I just sent a Sy Hersh

article from a year ago about the OSP to Diane Feinstein and asked her to push for the second part of the CIA report. Why don't you send her this article and ask her to push for the second part too. If you google Feinstein, there is an email form.