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[AskTheWiseOldMan]

Book says White House ordered forgery.

Suskind is an idiot, but I thought you'd like this Somer.

www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html

[sometimeman]

Oh! I must say my good man! Does this mean you are coming over to the so called, "dark" side?


“They secretly resettled him in Jordan, paid him $5 million – which one could argue was hush money – and then used his captive status to help deceive the world about one of the era’s most crushing truths: that America had gone to war under false pretenses,” the book says......................

.................Suskind writes that the forgery “operation created by the White House and passed to the CIA seems inconsistent with” a statute saying the CIA may not conduct covert operations “intended to influence United States political processes, public opinion, policies or media.”

Among the 415-page book’s other highlights:...................

....................--John Maguire, one of two men who oversaw the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group, was frustrated by what Suskind describes as the “tendency of the White House to ignore advice it didn’t want to hear – advice that contradicted its willed certainty, political judgments, or rigid message strategies.”

And Suskind writes that the administration “did not want to hear the word insurgency.”....................
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“Moving on its own natural arc, the country is in the process of leaving Bush – his bullying impulse fused, permanently, with satisfying vengeance – in the scattering ashes of 9/11,” Suskind writes. “The high purpose his angry words carried after the attacks, and in two elections since, is dissolving with each passing minute.”

--Suskind writes in the acknowledgments that his research assistant, Greg Jackson, “was sent to New York on a project for the book” in September 2007 and was “detained by federal agents in Manhattan. He was interrogated and his notes were confiscated, violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights.” The author provides no further detail.

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Here's some additional reading on this:

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/5/172840/1570/289/563123

Assessing Suskind's forgery charge
by smintheus
Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 10:35:27 PM EDT

George Bush and George Tenet both deny the allegation leveled by Ron Suskind's new book, The Way of the World, that in late 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and circulate a letter that would seem to justify the invasion of Iraq after the fact. Here is WH deputy press secretary Tony Fratto:

"Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild allegations that no one can verify..."

Bush has a long record of dishonesty, and Tenet's memoirs were not exactly a model of candor. There's no reason to give weight to either man's denials. Suskind has a record of credibility, and his account is partly backed up by Sir Richard Dearlove. But that doesn't mean Suskind's allegation about a forged letter, which depends on the word of two former CIA agents (Rob Richer and John Maguire), is necessarily credible. Do we have any independent means to assess its likelihood?

The best we can do is to examine known patterns to see if they tend to fit with the forgery allegation. Here are several.
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And there's this:

www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/5/104357/3144/591/562845

White House Approved Forged Iraqi Memo
by BooMan23
Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 10:47:58 AM EDT
[Proudly submitted from the Frog Pond]

Ron Suskind has a new book coming out that reveals, among other things, that the White House authorized the CIA to backdate a forged memo from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein that purported to show that lead-hijacker Mohammed Atta was trained in Iraq in the summer of 2001. The memo was created by the CIA and leaked to Con Coughlin of the UK Telegraph, who dutifully wrote it up on December 14, 2003, the same day that Saddam Hussein was 'pulled from a spiderhole' near Tikrit.

BooMan23's diary :: ::

Steven D and I have known for many years that Con Coughlin, Executive Foreign Editor of the UK Telegraph, is an American intelligence asset. As recently as January 2007, Steven nailed Coughlin in his article: Oh My God! North Korea is Helping Iran Get Nukes!. [Aside: please take the time to scroll down to Steven's section on Con Coughlin's Track Record]. As early as June 2005 I wrote an article about William Safire's incestuous relationship with the UK Telegraph and the Office of the Vice-President: William Safire Worked for Military Intelligence.
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