"Weapons of Mass Deception"noreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Wed, 6 Mar 2024 20:39:26 -0800Blogger http://www.blogger.com760125http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/en-ushttp://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2006/12/pnac-and-neocon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:57:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-114848640070225694 This site may contain copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/12/aipac-blasts-white-house-on-iran.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:40:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113391257105404826Ron KampeasSpecial to the Jewish TimesDECEMBER 06, 2005WashingtonAs time dwindles for diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran's drive for nuclear weapons, the pro-Israel lobby in Washington is criticizing the Bush administration's handling of the issue.The United States has endorsed a European Union plan that would allow Iran to continue its nuclear development as long as it leaves uranium enrichment,0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/aipac-has-been-under-investigation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:21:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113322736861625540By Andrew I. KillgoreWho launched the current FBI investigation of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), Israel’s principal lobby in the United States? The original version had it that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was told about the investigation soon after President George W. Bush began his first term of office. That was in early 2001.According to a story by Laura Rozen in0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/bush-informed-in-2001-of-lack-of-iraq.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:24:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113287864217995803Wed Nov 23, 3:39 PM ETUS President George W. Bush was reportedly informed 10 days after the September 11, 2001 attacks that US intelligence had no proof of links between Iraq and that act of terror.Citing government documents as well as past and present Bush administration officials, The National Journal said the president was briefed on September 21, 2001 that evidence of cooperation between 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/key-bush-intelligence-briefing-kept.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Wed, 23 Nov 2005 13:00:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113322948363215092by Murray Waas| ZNet | November 23, 2005Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/white-house-used-gossip-to-build-case.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:33:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113391205988769618By Rupert Cornwell in Washington11/21/05 "The Independent" -- -- The controversy in America over pre-war intelligence has intensified, with revelations that the Bush administration exaggerated the claims of a key source on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, despite repeated warnings before the invasion that his information was at best dubious, if not downright wrong.The disclosure, in 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-us-fell-under-spell-of-curveball.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Sun, 20 Nov 2005 15:47:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113253051796923626The Iraqi informant's German handlers say they had told U.S. officials that his information was 'not proven,' and were shocked when President Bush and Colin L. Powell used it in key prewar speeches.By Bob Drogin and John Goetz, Special to The TimesBERLIN — The German intelligence officials responsible for one of the most important informants on Saddam Hussein's suspected weapons of mass 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/pentagon-teams-war-plan-probed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:51:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113294481643413414An intelligence unit helped make the case for invading Iraq, saying the CIA overlooked links to Al Qaeda -- claims now largely discredited.By Greg Miller and Mark Mazzetti, Times Staff WritersNovember 19, 2005WASHINGTON — The Defense Department's inspector general's office said Friday it had begun investigating a Pentagon team that former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith used to build 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/pentagon-probes-office-headed-by-feith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:19:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113235604999362890Posted on Fri, Nov. 18, 2005 ROBERT BURNSAssociated PressWASHINGTON - The Pentagon's inspector general said Friday it has begun an investigation into allegations that an office run by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's former policy chief, Douglas J. Feith, engaged in illegal or inappropriate intelligence activities before the Iraq war.The probe, which two senators requested two months ago,0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/pentagon-agrees-to-probe-feiths-role.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:18:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113235597510260472Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:42 PM ETBy David MorganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's inspector general has agreed to review the prewar intelligence activities of former U.S. defense undersecretary Douglas Feith, a main architect of the Iraq war, congressional officials said on Thursday.News of the Defense Department probe comes at a time of bitter political debate over whether President George W. Bush0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/man-who-sold-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:43:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113253036522927338Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda warBy JAMES BAMFORDThe road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and brothels that cater to foreigners in the town of Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand.On December 17th, 2001, in a small room within the sound of the crashing tide, a CIA officer attached metal electrodes to the 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/bush-team-has-good-reason-to-worry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:08:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113210338072745274By Evelyn PringleOnline Journal Contributing WriterNov 15, 2005, 16:33In its systematic and concerted effort to portray a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, the White House propaganda team was so successful, that a poll conducted in late 2002, showed that over half of the people polled believed that Saddam was connected to 9/11.While that may have been great news for the home team 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/forging-case-for-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:50:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113210235553569579Who was behind the Niger uranium documents?by Philip GiraldiFrom the beginning, there has been little doubt in the intelligence community that the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame was part of a bigger story. That she was exposed in an attempt to discredit her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, is clear, but the drive to demonize Wilson cannot reasonably be attributed only to revenge. 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/senate-asks-pentagon-to-probe-feith.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:38:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113197563738617459by David MorganNovember 8, 2005 ReutersThe Pentagon's inspector general has been asked to investigate the prewar intelligence role of a planning office headed by former U.S. defense policy chief Douglas Feith, a main architect of the Iraq war, officials said on Tuesday.The request was made by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in a letter sent in August.It said the Defense Department 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/controversial-wmd-reporter-and-ny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:02:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113185106892166354WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (IPS) - Was she an innocent dupe who was played mercilessly by exile chieftain Ahmed Chalabi and his neo-conservative and Pentagon backers who led the march to war with Iraq in March 2003?Analysis by Jim LobeOr was she a co-conspirator in what former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson called a "cabal" that hijacked U.S. foreign policy in order 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/chalabis-impact-on-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 11 Nov 2005 18:56:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113176433198283014Iraqi leader's role in bolstered intelligence reports leading up to invasion Nov. 11, 2005MSNBCHe was the trusted ally of administration hawks and fed them bogus information that frightened America into a war.Now, Ahmed Chalabi is being welcomed again by his White House friends: Vice President Cheney, National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.Protestors 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/chalabis-curtain-call.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:06:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113210326613638900The White House resets the stage yet again for the notorious Iraqi expatriate who helped cook the case for war.By Juan ColeNov. 10, 2005 | On the street in Iraq, people give nicknames to the big longtime-expatriate politicians whom the Americans brought back to Iraq. They call former transitional Prime Minister Iyad Allawi "Iyad the Baathist" because of his background in that party. And they call0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/chalabi-and-aei-sequel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:14:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113197421005636888Robert Dreyfuss November 10, 2005 The convicted embezzler, the suave fabricator of intelligence, and the secularist-turned-Shiite fundamentalist-turned-Iranian agent, the elusive subject of a slow-moving FBI spy investigation, and the self-described “hero in error” approached the podium at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday after a glowing introduction from Chris DeMuth, AEI’s president.0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/top-secret-status-of-chalabi-inquiry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:38:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113139598953514977Few Signs of Progress Emerge in FBI CaseInvolving a Possible Leak of U.S. IntelligenceBy SCOT J. PALTROWStaff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi arrives this week in Washington for talks, there is little sign of progress in a federal investigation of allegations that he once leaked U.S. intelligence secrets to Iran.More than 17 months after 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/aipac-trial-could-expose-ways.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:28:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113115811263496564By Ron KampeasWASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (JTA) — It’s a classified leak case that could rattle U.S. foreign policy and fundamentally alter how Washington does business. But while the world watches the implosion in the vice president’s office, this case is proceeding quietly across the Potomac.Motions filed in recent weeks in the case against two former senior staffers of the American Israel Public 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/aipac-judge-keeps-evidence-classified.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:23:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113115745700749332The federal judge in the AIPAC classified-information case ruled that prosecutors may withhold evidence from the defense.In a hearing Wednesday in the case against Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, two former staffers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Judge T.S. Ellis of the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., ruled in favor of government arguments that recordings and transcripts0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/phase-ii.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 4 Nov 2005 18:18:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113115726761127930Squeezing Bush on his Prewar WMD HypeDavid CornWhen Senator Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman of the intelligence committee, promised in 2004 that his committee would investigate how Bush had used (or abused) the prewar intelligence on Iraq's WMDs--an unkept promise that led to the Democratic shutdown of the Senate this week--he made that promise to me.Actually, what the Democrats did was not 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/source-of-forged-niger-iraq-uranium.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:59:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113115604923383364By ELAINE SCIOLINOand ELISABETTA POVOLEDOPublished: November 4, 2005ROME, Nov. 3 - Italy's spymaster identified an Italian occasional spy named Rocco Martino on Thursday as the disseminator of forged documents that described efforts by Iraq to buy uranium ore from Niger for a nuclear weapons program, three lawmakers said Thursday.The spymaster, Gen. Nicolò Pollari, director of the Italian 0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/libby-jewish-some-wonder-how-neo-cons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:35:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113115818594447459By Ron Kampeas | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (JTA) —When Joshua Muravchik, perhaps the pre-eminent expert on the interventionist foreign policy that has become known as neo-conservatism, was looking for non-Jewish neo-cons to prove that the movement isn’t pervasively Jewish, he naturally included Lewis Libby.“Non-Jews figuring prominently in current foreign-policy debates and today called neo-cons include0http://chalabigate.blogspot.com/2005/11/sismis-war-in-iraq-matter-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Milton Frihetsson)Wed, 2 Nov 2005 16:23:00 -0800tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9134263.post-113097749422734570Rome knew in early 2003 that Saddam possessed no WMDs.By Carlo Bonini and Giuseppi d'AvanzoItalian intelligence knew that Iraq had no unconventional weapons.With its intelligence team already on the ground, Italy enters the war.ROME: The terrace of the Hotel Eden in via Ludovisi is flooded with sunlight. The SISMI official narrates the story of secret operations conducted on the ground in Iraq on0