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...From Friend To Foe" [May 31], about the U.S. investigation of its formerly favored Iraqi Ahmad Chalabi: The Bush Administration would have us believe that Chalabi duped us Americans into going to war against Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein and into thinking he had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that posed an imminent threat. Anyone who believes that is playing into the Administration's hands. Chalabi provided a convenient justification for a war that was being urged by George W. Bush's advisers. The blame for the unfortunate misadventure in Iraq lies squarely with the Bush team, and accusing Chalabi...
Bamford implies that Tenet, the ultimate staff guy, is partly to blame for this failure of nerve. When Secretary of State Colin Powell was putting together his now discredited speech to the U.N. last year about Saddam's WMD program, he stood virtually alone against the hard-liners, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley, all of whom seemed keen to pump up the Secretary's talking points. Cheney's staff handed Powell a 50-page draft of allegations; the Secretary rejected most of them as unsupportable, with the hard-liners, Rice and even Tenet fighting...
...months now the failures of U.S. intelligence have been at center stage as Congress has raked through the missteps that led to 9/11 and the misevaluation of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. With Tenet and his CIA at or near the focus of every inquiry, most of Washington assumed that he would be out of a job after the election--but not before. Tenet took Washington by surprise last week. On Wednesday night, after conferring with White House chief of staff Andrew Card, he spent 45 minutes alone with Bush in the White House family quarters...
...come from the brother of a top aide to Ahmad Chalabi whose code name was Curveball, but from an Israeli tip going back to 1994. Bamford quotes anonymous CIA agents who say that they suspected that much of the hard-liners' intelligence on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was bogus but there was pressure from within and without to shut up about...
...dead, prayed, cried and said thank you to all Americans for my liberty. On 9/11, I was traveling in California, and I was emotionally destroyed. When U.S. troops invaded Afghanistan, I supported them. When Bush decided to invade Iraq, I wasn't sure about the weapons of mass destruction (WMD), but I trusted the Americans. When no stockpiles of WMD were found, I turned against Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. After the scandal of Abu Ghraib, I am unable to find the words to express my disgust. I will never forget that Americans...