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Originally Posted by roachboy
interesting material host--thanks....thinking about it....
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I was surprised to see Lawence Wilkerson say the following to Wolf Blitzer, earlier today Those who rep for the right, here on TFP make comments about CNN having a leftist bias, but that is inacurrate. As can be observed in Wolf''s lack of interest in Wilkerson's comments......
Folks...even the news sources that you may think are "liberal", all have two common, top priorities....making money, and defending the status quo that they perceive is helping them to make money.....
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP.../20/le.01.html
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER
Interview With Donald Rumsfeld; Interview With Lawrence Wilkerson
Aired November 20, 2005 - 11:00 ET
BLITZER: And I didn't mean to suggest you're a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what you are.
Politically I know you're a retired senior military officer in the U.S. Army. You worked for Colin Powell at the State Department as his chief of staff. And you wrote this recently in the Los Angeles Times: "The decisions of this cabal were sometimes made with the full and witting support of the president and sometimes with something less. More often than not, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice was simply steamrolled by this cabal. Its insular and secret workings were efficient and swift, not unlike the decision making one would associate more with a dictatorship than a democracy."
This cabal being, in your words, "the vice president, Dick Cheney, the defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, basically got what they wanted in getting the United States to war against Saddam Hussein."
WILKERSON: Well, Wolf, my points were a little more precise than that.
My points had to do with the two issues, decision issues that I had the most profound insights into -- the one being the post-invasion situation in Iraq, and the inept and incompetent planning therefore, mostly led by Douglas Feith under secretary of defense for policy's outfit.
BLITZER: At the Pentagon.
WILKERSON: At the Pentagon.
And the issue which finally broke the -- the straw that broke the camel's back for me and made me want to go public, the issue of detainee abuse, which has done so much damage to my armed forces and so much damage to America's image and credibility around the world. Those were the two issues that I had the most profound insights into.
Now, let me add, there are other things that I think this different, alternative decision-making process had impact on. And I just don't have the profound insights into those other things.
For example, <b>I've recently learned that the Office of Strategic Intelligence that Secretary Rumsfeld wanted to set up in the Pentagon, which would essentially be an office of disinformation, due to the congressional pressure and the pressure from the American people, media and so forth, couldn't be set up.
I've learned that millions of taxpayer dollars were used to outsource that operation to the Rendon Group. And I'm looking into that now, too, because I have some insights into that. I've read the fine book by James Bamford, "Pretext for War" and then his recent article 15 November, I believe, in Rolling Stone which details the relationship between the Rendon Group, Ahmed Chalabi, the INC and so forth.</b>
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Yesterday, I had no awareness of the "Rendon Group". My own curiosity is aroused and now I hope that yourswill be, too.
Here's a link to video of Wilkerson's interview....
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/11/20.html#a5984