CIA’s Brennan Under Fire For Bogus Intelligence Leading To Iraq War
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OldLefty December 11th, 2014 at 7:07 pm
What happened to the most recent comments on the home page?
whatthe46 December 11th, 2014 at 7:21 pm
i don’t know. i wanted to ask the same question. i thought it was just my homepage that was screwing up.
OldLefty December 11th, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Yeah, it’s been since yesterday.
tiredoftea December 11th, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Brennan doesn’t like being thrown under the bus, who does? But, will he leak the proof of his assertions about the gains from torture? BTW, how can a so called civilized country even be having this conversation???
Poland and the Czech Republic have come out as rendition sites. How many more countries will “come out” to place international pressure on the U.S.?
neworleans878 December 11th, 2014 at 7:34 pm
Cheney/Bush lied, thousands upon thousands died.
Chicken Hawk mother f*ckers.
1%…the percentage of Americans in the military…fought and died to further enrich the 1% we’re most familiar with.
Suzanne McFly December 11th, 2014 at 7:39 pm
Chris Matthews just had Michael Steele on and Chris was talking about cheney’s recent statements of how he felt about the recent Senate report. Chris and Michael both agreed cheney will be the last guy on the Titanic claiming he did all he could to save Americans after 9/11 (too bad he didn’t give a crap about saving Americans before 9/11). They both agreed that cheney is soon becoming the last person in his own corner.
burqa December 11th, 2014 at 7:59 pm
“As for the Atta meeting in Prague mentioned by Cheney, the [9/11] commission staff concluded: “We do not believe that such a meeting occurred.” It cited FBI photographic and telephone evidence, along with Czech and U.S. investigations, as well as reports from detainees, including the Iraqi official with whom Atta was alleged to have met.”
– “Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed,” by Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, June 17, 2004, page A1
see also:
“Findings Further Erode Claims of Al Qaeda Ties,” by R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post, July 23, 2004, page A1
“Senior Czech officials have told their American counterparts that they now have “no confidence” in their earlier report of direct meetings in Prague between Mohammed Atta..and an Iraqi diplomat…..
“”Quite simply, we think the source for this story may have invented the meeting.We can find no corroborative evidence for the meeting and the source has real credibility problems,” a high-ranking source close to Czech intelligence told UPI Sunday….
“ ..former CIA Director James Wolsey and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle pursued their own inquiries using their own sources and have now also been told by high-ranking Czech sources that they no longer stand by the initial report.”
– “Czechs Retract Iraq Terror Link,” NewsMax Wires, NewsMax.com, Oct. 21, 2002
burqa December 11th, 2014 at 8:02 pm
“An FBI investigation concluded that Atta was apparently in Florida at the time of the alleged meeting [in Prague], and the CIA has always doubted it took place. Czech authorities first mentioned the alleged meeting to U.S. officials in October 2001, but have since said they no longer are certain Atta was there. The U.S. military has captured the Iraqi intelligence officer who was supposed to have met Atta but has not obtained confirmation from him..
Bush said in September that “we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th.”
Also in the Rocky Mountain News interview, Cheney referred those seeking a general relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda to a Weekly Standard article “based on an assessment that was done by the Department of Defense and forwarded to the Senate intelligence committee some weeks ago.” The November article asserted that an Oct. 27 memo from the Pentagon said Osama bin Laden and Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003.
When the article was published, the Pentagon said it was “inaccurate” that the Defense Department confirmed new information to the Senate committee about an Iraq-al Qaeda link, and that the memo was “not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, and it drew no conclusions.”
– “Cheney: Weapons Search Needs Time In Interview, Vice President Also Repeats Assertion of Al Qaeda-Iraq Link,” by Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2004
burqa December 11th, 2014 at 8:08 pm
“Intelligence reports in June, July and September 2002 all cast doubts on a reported meeting in Prague between Iraqi intelligence agents and Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. Yet in a Sept. 8, 2002 appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Cheney said the CIA considered the reports on the meeting credible, Levin said.”
– “Iraq’s Alleged Al-Qaeda Ties Were Disputed Before War Links Were Cited to Justify U.S. Invasion, Report Says,” by Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post, Sept. 9, 2006, page A1
“Cheney himself continued to suggest a collaboration between Saddam and al Qaeda long after others in the administration would make such a charge. Perhaps the most extreme examples were the continued references he made as late as June 2004 to an alleged meeting between Muhammad Atta and an Iraqi intelligence agent in Prague in April 2001- two years after the CIA and the FBI had investigated the matter and ruled out the possibility it could have occurred.”
– THE NEXT ATTACK The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right, by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon, (Time Books, 2005), page 171
fahvel December 11th, 2014 at 8:43 pm
why has it taken until now for what the whole world has known already to suddenly raise its f’n ugly head – the usa is a cess pool of elite pond scum with no conscience toward the rest of the planet.
Obewon December 11th, 2014 at 10:23 pm
CIA Dir told George Bush Jr that Iraq had no WMD’s 6 months before Iraq invasion!
Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by CIA Dir George Tenet, 6 months before invading Iraq. By SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL http://www.salon.com/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/ MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/18/panorama-iraq-fresh-wmd-claims
fancypants December 12th, 2014 at 4:48 am
the big question has yet to be answered
Why didn’t our government react or investigate when this was presented ?
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2008/06/kucinich_impeac.php
fancypants December 12th, 2014 at 4:56 am
………………….
http://youtu.be/i3dVD-4iqaQ
edmeyer_able December 12th, 2014 at 10:42 am
If you type senate torture report timeline you’ll get results showing this has been going on for 6 years now. I tried clicking your link and for some reason a 404 error comes up …always does w/these short links IDK
fancypants December 13th, 2014 at 12:51 am
Don’t know what to tell you about the link problem its not my website. Yea I know the issue has been brought up now and then but it was dropped rather quickly while dennis was in office.
William December 12th, 2014 at 9:27 am
Fox news update.
The GOP responds to the malicious attack on the Bush administration and CIA director John Brennan
bpollen December 12th, 2014 at 2:56 pm
Book I am reading has a joke in it about the CIA:
How do you know that the CIA wasn’t involved in the Kennedy assassination?
He’s dead, isn’t he?
Bunya December 12th, 2014 at 3:04 pm
I don’t get it.