January 3, 2006
Further to an earlier posting
Rewriting history, Mr Bush? ... As I was saying ... November 15, 2005,
and to emphasize the deceiving incredulity of Charles Duelfer's testament:
"DUELFER:
The system--you know, if you have a 100 people in the day who say, you
know, "I was driving in Baghdad and I didn't see anything," it doesn't
make it to the president's desk. It's just a--it's unnatural. I mean that, you know, nothing is happening, so you are going to report that to the president? (emphasis added)
But
you if you do get a guy, you know, who says something is going on, then
that attracts attention. I don't know, is it--part of it is human
nature and part of it's a systemic problem."
But, but .. "It's just a -- it's unnatural" (A previous posting on this site on July 4, 2005) ;
the following book sheds new light on the "we did not know" lie:
"A
new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes
how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to
obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam
Hussein's nuclear program.
Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the
dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother
was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he
said — it had been dead for a decade.
New York Times reporter James
Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information
that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His book, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration describes secret operations of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.
The
major revelation in the book has already been the subject of extensive
reporting by Risen's newspaper: the National Security Agency's
eavesdropping of Americans' conversations without obtaining warrants
from a special court.
The book said Dr. Alhaddad flew home in
mid-September 2002 and had a series of meetings with CIA analysts. She
relayed her brother's information that there was no nuclear program.
A
CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency
believed her brother was lying. In all, the book says, some 30 family
members of Iraqis made trips to their native country to contact Iraqi
weapons scientists, and all of them reported that the programs had been
abandoned. (emphasis added)
In October 2002, a month after
the doctor's trip to Baghdad, the U.S intelligence community issued a
National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iraq was reconstituting
its nuclear program."
Book: CIA ignored info Iraq had no WMD January 3, 2006
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