Cooked-up Feith "intel" leaked to flagship of right-wing rags, The Weekly Standard

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/opinion/10sat1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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The false information included a meeting in Prague in April 2001 between an Iraqi official and Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 pilots. It never happened. But Mr. Feith’s report said it did, and Mr. Cheney will still not admit that the story is false.

In a statement released yesterday, Senator Carl Levin, the new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who has been dogged in pursuit of the truth about the Iraqi intelligence, noted that the cooked-up Feith briefing had been leaked to the conservative Weekly Standard magazine so Mr. Cheney could quote it as the “best source” of information about the supposed Iraq-Qaeda link.

The Pentagon report is one step in a long-delayed effort to figure out how the intelligence on Iraq was so badly twisted — and by whom. That work should have been finished before the 2004 elections, and it would have been if Pat Roberts, the obedient Republican who ran the Senate Intelligence Committee, had not helped the White House drag it out and load it in ways that would obscure the truth.

It is now up to Mr. Levin and Senator Jay Rockefeller, the current head of the intelligence panel, to give Americans the answers. Mr. Levin’s desire to have the entire inspector general’s report on the Feith scheme declassified is a good place to start. But it will be up to Mr. Rockefeller to finally determine how old, inconclusive, unsubstantiated and false intelligence was transformed into fresh, reliable and definitive reports — and then used by Mr. Bush and other top officials to drag the country into a disastrous and unnecessary war.

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http://www.calblog.com/archives/003526.html

My brother (Coast Guard vet, and Neocon worshiper) always tosses the Bekah Valley story out.

it's just the way their brains function. Truth and facts are enemies that must be defeated. I can't explain it, but I damn sure can recognize it.

will rule the govt by lying to the masses as the masses don't have the intelligence to make decisions for themselves. So they tell the peons what they believe the peons want to hear and then go about and do whatever they damned well please. Personally, I believe they are all delusional sociopaths.

their behavior?...they even believe their OWN lies. Which, come to think of it, actually defines them.
I guess, to be brutally honest, we all hear what we want to hear, to some degree - it's easier than thinking. That might be an inevitable result of having it too easy. The phrase 'spoiled rotten' comes to mind.

Neocons sitting around all day as "spoiled rotten" kids playing the game Risk? Moving the pieces around to take over the world. I pictured them doing that. I also figure that's why, once they "conquered" Iraq, they didn't have a clue what to do. Risk doesn't haven't plans for reconstruction.

I see it all the time. For example, when I get one of those broadcast neocon hate emails and prove it to be a string of lies (easy to do) by citing Snopes or some other source, the sender never expresses any form of regret. They never send out a followup to all recipients to correct the lie they have repeated, and often express a sort of pride for having perpetrated the myth.

To them being liars is not a negative or even a neutral, it is a virtue if it does anything at all to further acceptance of their ideologies or slander those who oppose them.

The thing is these guys tried in every way possible to only show what they wanted. They let their ideology dictate the evidence. They threw out or ignored what they didn't like, like things that contradicted all of the facts. They picked the evidence they wanted.

For our own good, no doubt. :sarcasm:

but can't explain how they could actually DO that without having intel of their own. So his only recourse is to lie which is SOP for assholes of his ilk.
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to Syria and had the Weekly Standard publish it. Every now and then you will hear Bushbots talk about it.

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from The Weekly Standard? Does he not know they have no credibility?

Standard and kept surfing!

was classified. Years ago it was feared that feith was going to go to jail. I wonder what happened to all of that.

If, as is claimed, no actual laws were broken, he has no (legal) problems to worry about.
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