WP Sunday: CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists

To moderator: this is fresh reporting with non-wingnut coverage of the Feith memo.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46460-2003Nov15.html

CIA Finds No Evidence Hussein Sought to Arm Terrorists

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 16, 2003; Page A20

The CIA's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has found no evidence that former president Saddam Hussein tried to transfer chemical or biological technology or weapons to terrorists, according to a military and intelligence expert.

Anthony Cordesman, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, provided new details about the weapons search and Iraqi insurgency in a report released Friday. It was based on briefings over the past two week in Iraq from David Kay, the CIA representative who is directing the search for unconventional weapons in Iraq; L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil administrator there; and military officials.

"No evidence of any Iraqi effort to transfer weapons of mass destruction or weapons to terrorists," Cordesman wrote of Kay's briefing. "Only possibility was Saddam's Fedayeen and talk only."

One of the concerns the Bush administration cited early last year to justify the need to invade Iraq was that Hussein would provide chemical or biological agents or weapons to al Qaeda or other terrorists. Despite the disclosure that U.S. and British intelligence officials assessed that Hussein would use or distribute such weapons only if he were attacked and faced defeat, administration spokesmen have continued to defend that position.

Last Thursday, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith defended the administration's prewar position at the Council on Foreign Relations. "The idea that we didn't have specific proof that he was planning to give a biological agent to a terrorist group," he said, "doesn't really lead you to anything, because you wouldn't expect to have that information even if it were true. And our intelligence is just not at the point where if Saddam had that intention that we would necessarily know it."

Yesterday, allegations of new evidence of connections between Iraq and al Qaeda contained in a classified annex attached to Feith's Oct. 27 letter to leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence were published in the Weekly Standard. Feith had been asked to support his July 10 closed-door testimony about such connections. The classified annex summarized raw intelligence reports but did not analyze them or address their accuracy, according to a senior administration official familiar with the matter.

I had to check for a photo of him to see just what the heck a person looks like who would EVEN attempt to gibber a substitute version of the truth to the American public.


Feith, the very image of integrety

That whole quote bends around itself and twists its spine to try to get back to the beginning.

Sheeeeeeesh! :eyes:

when I was accidently turning on the channel on Fox news program...I was yelling at the tv..."WTF!! this stuff was debunked months ago." good to know that someone is calling them on it, geesh!!

No wonder the american public is so confused!

So they are now so blatant with their propaganda that they release the disinformation through Newsmax, which is picked up by Fox, and put out over the airwaves to innoculate the masses against the truth (?) which is contained in the report, which was released Friday?!

Is that how it went?

This is very, very scary. This is true Doublespeak.

...read when you have a chance:

FBI Admits: No Evidence Links 'Hijackers' to 9-11
<http://www.americanfreepress.net/051302/FBI_Admits__No_Evidence_/fbi_admits__no_evidence_.html>


Hijack 'suspects' alive and well
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm>


The Hijackers?
<http://www.unansweredquestions.org/background_61.php>


7 Of 19 FBI Identified Hijackers
Located Alive After WTC Attacks
<http://www.rense.com/general20/alives.htm>


Mad Cow Morning News - Previous Issues
<http://www.madcowprod.com/past.html>


---Extensive and well-researched investigative journalism on the hijackers, the flight schools, and other subjects. Compare this with what we've gotten in our own media. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

It looks like they disseminated the Big Lie on Friday and are now crawling back from it quietly. Governance by chaos, I guess.

The Big Lie or the real TRUTH? Far too many will hear the Lie only.

'inadmissable evidence' -- the attorney KNOWS he can't say what he's going to say, because it's not true or relevant - that it will be objected to and struck from the record, but once the words are out of his mouth, the jury remembers the statement and will subconsciously (or consciously) take it into consideration. so he says it anyway, to make that impression, then when the judge pimp-slaps him, he apologizes with a sneer. damage done.

very slippery, kkkarl and the boys are ....



:hippie:

they wouldn't have had to crawl back. The media and the Dems would have been too afraid to contradict them.

I wouldn't give credit to the media or the Dems for the change. Mostly the pissed-off spies have done the change.

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=222172