Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House

[RebelYell]

Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links
By Julian Coman in Washington
(Filed: 11/07/2004)


A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda, according to the Senate intelligence committee.

The allegations about Douglas Feith, the number three at the Department of Defence, are made in a supplementary annexe of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to war in Iraq, released on Friday.

According to dramatic testimony contained in the annexe, Mr Feith's cell undermined the credibility of CIA judgments on Iraq's alleged al-Qa'eda links within the highest levels of the Bush administration.

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The claims will lead to calls by Democrats for the resignation of Mr Feith, the third-ranking civilian at the Department of Defence and a leading "neo-con" hawk. "Tenet fell on his sword," said one Democrat official, "even though it's clear that he was placed under tremendous pressure to come up with the 'right' intelligence product for the administration on Iraq.

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[RebelYell]

1. Another crack in the dam

NT

[RebelYell]

2. Kicking

:kick:

[scarletwoman]

3. You need to fix your link - get rid of the double "http//"

Unfortunately, this won't help much unless it gets picked up by U.S. media. I keep waiting for a story about the OSP to break out, but so far I've only seen one oblique, passing reference buried in an article emphasizing something else.

sw

[maggrwaggr]

4. link doesn't work for me n/t

[RebelYell]

5. I apologize

Link fixed - I'm new to boards, forgive my ignorance.

[scarletwoman]

6. No need to apologize -- it happens to alot of folks all the time!

Btw, welcome to DU! :hi:

sw

[RebelYell]

8. Sheesh

This site is easy to use and I still screwed it up - give me time!

Thanks for the welcome. :hi:

[scarletwoman]

10. I forgot to thank you for fixing the link! THANKS!

I've just finished reading the whole article -- funny that it doesn't name the Office of Special Plans outright.

It's all very disturbing, what with only the Democrats even bringing up Feith's role at all, along with the fact that the second part of the report won't even come out until after November.

I appreciate you posting this article, it's very interesting. Like I said, I want to see this being picked up by the U.S. media -- but fat chance... (*sigh*)

sw

[tech3149]

7. Welcome Rebel

The more the merrier!

[RebelYell]

9. Thanks tech!

:hi: