CIA Seeks Probe of Iraq-Al Qaeda Memo Leak (Weekly Standard)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54452-2003Nov17.html

The CIA will ask the Justice Department to investigate the leak of a 16-page classified Pentagon memo that listed and briefly described raw agency intelligence on any relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network, according to congressional and administration sources.

In addition, the leaders of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), are considering making their own request for a Justice investigation. The top-secret memo was attached to an Oct. 27 letter to them from Undersecretary of Defense Douglas J. Feith. Feith was answering a request that he support his assertion during a closed-door hearing in July that there was intelligence to support a longtime relationship between the Iraqi leader and the terrorist group.

Excerpts from the memo were first published Saturday in the issue of the Weekly Standard dated Nov. 24. Under the headline "Case Closed," the article described the memo as documenting "an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003" between bin Laden and Hussein. It describes the memo as containing "50 numbered points" that are "best viewed as sort of a 'Cliff's Notes' version of the relationship. It contains the highlights, but it is far from exhaustive."

In making their case for invading Iraq, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other senior administration officials stressed both Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction and his connection to bin Laden. To date, the administration has been unable to come up with unconventional weapons in Iraq or evidence that there was a close connection between the Iraqis and al Qaeda.

...because there's been another theft, this time from the Senate Judiciary committee. See my thread on LBN.

the senate is part of the whitehouse now. there isn`t enough republicans in the senate that will stand up for their responsibilty as part of the checks and balances of our government. we are argentina,where people disappear ,where people go unpunished for crimes against humanity and the nation is stripped of it`s wealth by the "upper classes".

A freaking 18.

First we saw the memo seemingly written by a staffer of the Democratic minority on the Senate Intelligence Committee leaked to to FOX News' Sean Hannity.

Then, the "Saddam-al-Qaeda" Senate Intelligence Committee memo leaked to The Weekly Standard.

Now Dick Durbin's Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) files seem to have been accesses and leaked to The Washington Times and editorial page of the Wall Street Journal.

FOX, The Weekly Standard, the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times ... it seems there is a pattern, but I can't say exactly what it is ...

These are the acts of desparate people who are doing everything they can to destroy their opposition, in the meanwhile they are destroying themselves.

that John Q will wake up and realize that all of the leaks are meant to destroy anyone who opposes *?

and why do documents that would show the perfidy of this misadministration never appear?

Via Fox and now the WP picked it up. This is BS complete BS.

GD thread from last night. IT seems to me that there is doubt directly stated IN this article, that won't stop them from saying it though. That was the exact direct quote both reporters said verbatim.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=727861

FOX:"US intelligence has never doubted a decade of Saddam alQaeda links"
I heard this TWICE tonight. Once from Jim Angle on what's called 'Pebble Beach' outside of the White House and then again on the Fox Report at 7PM from a coompletely different reporter.

They cited information sent to the Senate Intelligence Committee that there had been 50 SPECIFIC cited contacts between the two parties. Apparently, according to Fox News, Osama was offered safe haven in Iraq in 1996. Added was footage of Colin's first (I think) UN speech and commentary that the Bush administration had previously mentioned it.

I just want to let you know what is coming. Complete BS, I think this is same memo Sean Hannity "broke" last week that they ran up the flag pole to see if anyone would salute but no one did.

true, there seem to be more between the Saudis and Al Qaeda. :eyes:

...than either of them has to each other.