this office was created with 4 people to start...to create intel to suppport an Iraq attack and bush*s lies in his SOTU, UN presentation and to Congress to influnce their vote on Iraq resolution...googled it and read for yourselves...a real evil and unethical bunch
New York City - CIA Probing If Officials Were Misled On Iraq... a statement. But he won't be able to review the reports from the
Pentagon's special plans office. Warner's committee could. His ...
www.nynewsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ ny-wocia043315966jun04,0,3888552.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print
theage.com.au - The Age... Mr Powell reportedly said he had come away from briefings by the Pentagon's office of special plans, set up by Mr Wolfowitz, "apprehensive" about what he called ...
www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/ 05/31/1054177767278.html
english.daralhayat.com/column/26-05-2003/Article-20030526-646f2b20-c0a8-01fc-0014-d18fab530033/ story.html
Defense Department spokesmen acknowledge that a small, four-member team is working on Iran policy within the Pentagon's so-called Office of Special Plans. ...
www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.06.06/news6.html
More Missing Intelligence... According to current and former US intelligence analysts and government officials,the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans funneled information, unchallenged ...
www.commondreams.org/views03/0622-05.htm
http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.06.06/news6.htmlPentagon Team on Iran Comes Under Fire
By MARC PERELMAN
FORWARD STAFF
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"They are running their own intelligence operation, including covert action, and are using contractors outside the government to do some of the leg work," said a former top CIA official. "Their area of work has been concentrated on Iraq, which is why the intelligence on WMD was so bad, but they have a much broader portfolio. The office is undergoing some scrutiny from inside the government given its poor track record and the lack of 'sanity checking' their products with the intelligence community. A lot of material they produce is not shared with CIA, not coordinated, and finds its way into public policy statements by the likes of Rumsfeld and Cheney."
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Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, was interviewed by National Public Radio -- All Things Considered -- on Friday, May 30th. In that interview, it was mentioned that a group calling itself "Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity" was being formed. Larry Johnson believes that intelligence was misused. He indicated that there are analysts currently on active duty who are distraught at the "cooking of the books." He believed because the evidence did not exist, that this is outrageous. Moreover, he thought that the "Office of Special Plans" in the Department of Defense presents a clear and present danger, and that the Congress should investigate this. To illustrate his non-partisan position, he made certain to say that he votes Republican.
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http://www.payvand.com/news/03/jun/1051.htmlhttp://www.payvand.com/news/03/jun/1051.htmlBogus Intelligence, Foreign Policy and Crying Wolf-owitz
By: Fareed Marjaee
Meezan_2@yahoo.ca
"The first draft of Powell's speech was written by Cheney's staff… At one point during the rehearsal, Powell tossed several pages in the air. "I'm not reading this," he declared. "This is bulls- - -." (1) "Powell reportedly told Straw he hoped that when the facts came out they wouldn't 'explode in their faces'." (2)
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Down to this paragraph you can see why your tax dollars are hard at work (at an Idle) financing a multibillion dollar intelligence network. So a team of four guys in a basement office can do it by themselves ignoring any kind of resources that would be needed
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They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal -- a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon’s "Office of Special Plans." In the past year, according to former and present Bush Administration officials, their operation, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has brought about a crucial change of direction in the American intelligence community.
According to the Pentagon adviser, "Special Plans" was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true"
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