Saddam-Qaeda Conspiracy Theorist Surfaces Writing Iraq Reports For The Pentagon

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Source: TPM

Saddam-Qaeda Conspiracy Theorist Surfaces Writing Iraq Reports For The Pentagon
By Justin Elliott - January 29, 2009, 5:53PM
It's a truism that neoconservatives have a talent for failing upward: for repeatedly getting important things wrong and not seeing their careers suffer - for, in fact, being handed new opportunities to pursue their work (see, e.g., Kristol, Bill; and Hayes, Stephen).

Today we can add another name to that list: Laurie Mylroie, the quintessential conspiracy theorist of the Iraq War era, wrote reports about Iraq for the Pentagon as recently as Fall 2007, years after she was discredited, according to documents obtained by TPMmuckraker.

Mylroie is the author of two studies -- "Saddam's Strategic Concepts: Dealing With UNSCOM," dated Feb. 1, 2007, and "Saddam's Foreign Intelligence Service," dated Sept. 24, 2007 -- on a list of reports from the Pentagon's Office Of Net Assessment , obtained by TPMmuckraker through the Freedom Of Information Act. The ONA is the Defense Department's internal think tank, once described by the Washington Post as "obscure but highly influential."

Those who follow the neoconservative movement closely are stunned that Mylroie has surfaced again -- and especially that she is doing government-sponsored work on Iraq. "It's kind of astonishing that the ONA would come even within a mile of her," says Jacob Heilbrunn, author of They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons. "I think she is completely discredited."

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Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/saddam-qaeda_conspiracy_theorist_surfaces_writing.php

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(original reporting by TPM)

[robertpaulsen]

1. K & R! People need to see this bullshit.

:kick:

[mod mom]

2. Wow-she served as an advisor in the Clinton Administration. nt

[libodem]

3. Why am I not surprised?

The Bush administration also gave out $10,000 dollar prizes to write papers denying global warming. For them to make up intelligence or accept made up intelligence seems par for the course.Dirty rotten crooks and liars.

[UpInArms]

4. this whackshit co-wrote a book about Saddam with Judith Miller - the NYT's

piece of shit lying scumsucker.