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Feith's Office of Special Plans behind Iraq-Al Qaeda forgery
amconmag.com — Douglas Feith's Office of Special Plans was behind a forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda and also to attempts made to obtain yellowcake uranium, not the CIA. According to former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, Ron Suskind's account that Tenet was behind the forgery is bogus.
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- 911ArtStudent, on 08/07/2008, -2/+11For those who are not familiar with either Douglas Feith or the Office of Special Plans, Feith was long suspected of being an "agent of influence" for Israel and had lost his security clearance because he was suspected of passing classified documents to Israeli Operatives. The same was true of Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. All of them lost their security clearances for the same reason. They were only reinstated when they acquired a political appointment by the President. According to Sibel Edmonds, Wayne Madsen, and Philip Giraldi, career bureaucrats at the FBI, NSA, and CIA objected to their appointment to civilian oversight positions in the Pentagon but they were overruled. Larry Franklin, an employee in Feith's Office of Special Plans is presently serving a 13 year sentence for passing classified secrets to Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two AIPAC representatives who then passed the classified intelligence on to the Israeli government.
The Office of Special Plans was a short-lived outfit in the Pentagon's Policy office that provided the White House with inaccurate, skewed intelligence linking Iraq and al-Qaeda that was used to justify the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Most of the bogus intelligence came from the Israeli government and the ordinary means of vetting intelligence were bypassed. The CIA and the Pentagon's own internal intelligence agencies were circumvented. Pentagon analysts were instructed to incorporate the bogus talking points word for word in their reports and told not to look at their own internal intelligence assessments. You can google "Office of Special Plans"+"stovepipe" or "Office of Special Plans"+Kwiatkowski to learn more. A Congressional hearing headed by Senator Waxman found that Feith and his OSP had acted inappropriately by passing off their ideas as actual intelligence assessments
You can read about Feith here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/green02282004.html
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2007/S ...
You can read about the Office of Special Plans here:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20041004/dreyfuss
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.u ...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12 ...
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/10/27/031027 ...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030707/dreyfuss
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/05/12/030512 ... - jodimcmullen, on 08/08/2008, -1/+4Tenet was in on it also, but Feith is one of the front men, sent in to accomplish Israel's expansionist goals. Today Israel issued permits to build more houses in occupied land. Israel settlers are subsidized financially and could not do that for over 420,000 people without U.S. aid. We can't subsidize health care for American children but we can help Israel steal land and financially support the radicals that move there.
http://www.reuters.com/article/middleeastCrisis/id ...
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-07-voa54.cf ...
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hhVHLxukrK2yB5 ...
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