thinkprogress.org — Ron Suskind, author of a new book that reveals that the White House forged a letter concocting a fake link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, criticized the administration?s pre-war arrogance. For example, Donald Rumsfeld once claimed that the U.S. could easily ?bend? Iraq to think like the West.
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thcanalichioAug 6, 2008
i had almost forgotten all about Rummy. wonder if that was their plan? i heard sometime not long after Mukasey took over that Rummy still had an office at the pentagon. know if that's true?
Closed AccountAug 7, 2008
According to former CIA antiterror officer Philip Giraldi, this story is a hoax. The Suskind account states that two senior CIA officers Robert Richer and John Maguire supervised the preparation of the document under direct orders coming from Director George Tenet. Not so, says my source. Tenet is for once telling the truth when he states that he would not have undermined himself by preparing such a document while at the same time insisting publicly that there was no connection between Saddam and al-Qaeda. Richer and Maguire have both denied that they were involved with the forgery and it should also be noted that preparation of such a document to mislead the media is illegal and they could have wound up in jail.My source also notes that Dick Cheney, who was behind the forgery, hated and mistrusted the Agency and would not have used it for such a sensitive assignment. Instead, he went to Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans and asked them to do the job. It was actually Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans that was behind the forgery:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/world_news/Feith_s_Office_of_Special_Plans_behind_Iraq_Al_Qaeda_forgery">http://digg.com/world_news/Feith_s_Office_of_Speci ...</a>