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democracyarsenal.org - 8/7/2008
Atta Was in the U.S., Not Baghdad, at Time Alleged in Forged Letter?
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The allegations in Ron Suskind's new book of the Bush administration forging a letter linking 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraq to bolster the justification for war are pretty explosive. Shortly after news of the letter's existence broke in Britain, though, Newsweek cited "U.S. officials and a leading Iraqi document...that the document is most likely a forgery." Fair enough, but ...

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The Sideshow — ... "reveals no he said/she said dispute over the letter," written on "creamy White House stationery." In responding to Suskind's book, which gets a mixed review from Salon, John Dean says that "It looks like Cheney's been very effective in setting up his deniability and being the fail-safe for Bush," while agreeing that Suskind's Iraq war allegations alone are worse than Watergate. The explosive charges from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter didn't merit a mention on the ...

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Assessing Suskind's forgery charge — Daily Kos
George Bush and George Tenet both deny the allegation leveled by Ron Suskind's new book, The Way of the World , that in late 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and circulate a letter that would seem to justify the invasion of Iraq after the fact. Here is WH deputy press secretary Tony Fratto : "Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and ...