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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:26 PM
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MORE Forgeries From Bushco?
Edited on Mon Aug-11-08 02:34 PM by kpete
Jonathan Schwarz:
More Habbush Forgeries?

... were there any other forged Habbush letters? The answer appears to be yes.
http://www.ronsuskind.com/thewayoftheworld/transcripts/

Interestingly, there’s some suggestive material about this in the transcript Suskind released of one of his interviews with CIA Near East Division chief Rob Richer:

RICHER: You know, we got so much garbage that first couple—that year.

SUSKIND: Were there other things like this where we were creating product?

RICHER: You know, I don’t remember that.


He doesn’t remember? That doesn’t sound too convincing. But maybe he wouldn’t, if forging letters wasn’t a notable event at the CIA:

RICHER: Let me tell you what I know, just so before you color any of it. Is that when you first asked me about it I remember just really telling you that it was a non-event, and if you were to ask me today I would tell you it was a non-event. It came down from the seventh floor. It was part of–as I remember it, it wasn’t so much to influence America–that’s illegal–but it was kinda like a covert, a way to influence Iraqis…

To characterize it right, I would say, right: it came to us, George had a raised eyebrow, and basically we passed it on–it was to–and passed this on into the organization. You know, it was: ‘Okay, we gotta do this, but make it go away.’To be honest with you, I don’t want to make it sound–I for sure don’t want to portray this as George jumping: ‘Okay, this has gotta happen.’ As I remember it–and, again, it’s still vague, so I’ll be very straight with you on this…it wasn’t that important.


AND: This is a good example of why we should thank Jeebus every day for the internet. Without it, how would anyone be able to go back and research the other Habbush letters? And even if someone did, how would they ever tell anyone else about it?

more at:
http://thismodernworld.com/4425

If even The American Conservative http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2008/08/07/suskind-revisit... / says that Dick Cheney is behind the forgery, and there is a tape and transcript that corroborates this assertion, then isn’t it Congress' duty to, at a minimum, initiate investigations and hold hearings to determine whether there was a deliberate attempt to lie this country into an invasion?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/09/tape-top-cia-o...
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:29 PM
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1. K&R I just wish someone somewhere is attempting to ensure these
criminals will one day face the justice they deserve before it is too late....
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:31 PM
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4. That would be Congress' constitutional duty
But then, they've been neglecting that for years, most noticeably since the Democrats took control.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:34 PM
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5. So with that statement do you feel that we are well and trully F------?
and in reality there is just nothing that will stop them?
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 06:57 PM
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8. If Congress cannot/will not do anything...
Then it falls to the People to throw out the Representatives and Senators and install a Congress that will, at long last, do its Constitutional duty. If the collective "we" cannot/will not do that, then yes, we are well and truly fucked, and at our own insistence, too.
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:29 PM
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2. K&R
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Overseas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:30 PM
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3. K&R -- more evidence on the table. //eom
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:35 PM
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6. Oh well....too bad presidents who commit crimes are so well insulated
K&R
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wiggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 02:48 PM
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7. Remember the first directive of the Bush administration? Sealing of presidential
records for much longer periods after stepping down....retroactive to GHWB 41.

Unless there are subpoenas and investigations, the paper trail and evidence for journalists to sift through won't be available for decades. Almost like they intended from the start to establish the unitary executive.
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