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From: Alan Baker <alangba...@telus.net>
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Subject: OT: Political: Wow!  Our Security Agencies held back important information...
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...because Bush told them to hold it back:

'The next day, Sept. 18, Tenet briefed Bush on Sabri. "Tenet told me he 
briefed the president personally," said one of the former CIA officers. 
According to Tenet, Bush¹s response was to call the information "the 
same old thing." Bush insisted it was simply what Saddam wanted him to 
think. "The president had no interest in the intelligence," said the CIA 
officer. The other officer said, "Bush didn¹t give a fuck about the 
intelligence. He had his mind made up."

But the CIA officers working on the Sabri case kept collecting 
information. "We checked on everything he told us." French intelligence 
eavesdropped on his telephone conversations and shared them with the 
CIA. These taps "validated" Sabri¹s claims, according to one of the CIA 
officers. The officers brought this material to the attention of the 
newly formed Iraqi Operations Group within the CIA. But those in charge 
of the IOG were on a mission to prove that Saddam did have WMD and would 
not give credit to anything that came from the French. "They kept saying 
the French were trying to undermine the war," said one of the CIA 
officers.

The officers continued to insist on the significance of Sabri¹s 
information, but one of Tenet¹s deputies told them, "You haven¹t figured 
this out yet. This isn¹t about intelligence. It¹s about regime change."

The CIA officers on the case awaited the report they had submitted on 
Sabri to be circulated back to them, but they never received it. They 
learned later that a new report had been written. "It was written by 
someone in the agency, but unclear who or where, it was so tightly 
controlled. They knew what would please the White House. They knew what 
the king wanted," one of the officers told me.

That report contained a false preamble stating that Saddam was 
"aggressively and covertly developing" nuclear weapons and that he 
already possessed chemical and biological weapons. "Totally out of 
whack," said one of the CIA officers. "The first [para]graph of an 
intelligence report is the most important and most read and colors the 
rest of the report." He pointed out that the case officer who wrote the 
initial report had not written the preamble and the new memo. "That¹s 
not what the original memo said."'



Someone should PAY for this!  Holding that information is blatantly 
political!  How can we trust our security agencies if they put politics 
first over national security?  EVERY ONE of the top officials in those 
agencies should be fired!

:-)

-- 
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."