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Originally Posted by Elphaba
Cheney continued to insist on the Iraq/al'Q connection during the same week that the investigation into the use of intelligence following 9/11 was declassified.
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For those who may be unfamiliar with Douglas Feith, he is a major player with the neocons and supporter of PNAC. Cheney was crazy like a fox to continue his Iraq/al'Q soundbite because that appears to be the attention span of a large number of Americans.
'Inappropriate' is when I let slip a swear word in from of my granddaughter. I would think creating false intelligence to build support for a preemptive war to be far more serious. I wonder what consequences will follow; a five-minute timeout, perhaps? |
IMO, the recently released DOD Inspector General report did not go far enough in condemning Feith, including possible criminal sanctions.
As I noted several months ago:
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Feith led the controversial Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon from September 2002 to June of 2003. This now defunct intelligence gathering unit has been accused of manipulating intelligence to bolster support for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. According to the British newspaper, The Guardian, "This rightwing intelligence network [was] set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force." According to Feith's former deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, the Office of Special Plans was "a propaganda shop" and she personally "witnessed neoconservative agenda bearers within OSP usurp measured and carefully considered assessments, and through suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis promulgate what were in fact falsehoods to both Congress and the executive office of the president."
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