They Tortured to get their War of ChoiceBy: Attaturk Wednesday April 22, 2009 1:30 am
The real ticking timebombs
What was going on in March 2003?McClatchy:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66622.htmlBut for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there." ...Cheney, Rumsfeld and Chalabi, why what could go wrong?"Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn't any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam, and that no such ties were likely because the two were fundamentally enemies, not allies."
Senior administration officials, however, "blew that off and kept insisting that we'd overlooked something, that the interrogators weren't pushing hard enough, that there had to be something more we could do to get that information," he said.So a war crime to support a war crime?http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/22/but-of-course-2/
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