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Ayad Allawi and Bush administration's forgery of documents, Ron Suskind
salon.com - 8/8/2008
Ayad Allawi and Bush administration's forgery of documents, Ron Suskind
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Aug. 8, 2008 | If Ron Suskind's sensational charge that the White House and CIA colluded in forging evidence to justify the Iraq invasion isn't proved conclusively in his new book, "The Way of the World," then the sorry record of the Bush administration offers no basis to dismiss his allegation. Setting aside the relative credibility of the author and the government, the relevant question is ...

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Firedoglake:  Not a Question of If, But Who, Forged the Letter

TPMMuckraker:  Suskind's Report About Forged Iraq-Al Qaeda Letter Holding Up Under Scrutiny

Daily Kos:  Lies that Matter

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Not a Question of If, But Who, Forged the Letter
Firedoglake — ... , Iyad Allawi was a CIA guy, not--at first--an OVP guy. (OVP's guy, Ahmad Chalabi, himself a fan of forgeries, discredited this one right away.) But that actually doesn't discredit the story entirely; Allawi was auditioning to be named Prime Minister in this period, and I can imagine he would do a great deal to win that prize. Here's Joe Conason on that point: ...

Suskind's Report About Forged Iraq-Al Qaeda Letter Holding Up Under Scrutiny
TPMMuckraker — ... Also today the story got new legs -- and additional details -- from Joe Conason's column in Salon. Conason takes us back to the time of the bogus letter's first appearance. ...

Lies that Matter
Daily Kos — ... There ain't nothing like a sex scandal for the panty-sniffers in the punditry, but in the vast scheme of things, might it not be a little more important for the chattering classes to spend some time on this? ...

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The Sideshow — ... Conason on Suskind: "That story begins during the final weeks of 2003, when everyone in the White House was suffering severe embarrassment over both the origins and the consequences of the invasion of Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. No evidence of significant connections between Saddam Hussein's regime and the al-Qaida terrorist organization had been discovered there either. Nothing in this costly misadventure was turning out as advertised by the Bush administration." ...

Quickies
WTF Is It Now?!? — ... of stuff up on teh web this morning -- and here I thought it was going to be a quiet Caturday! How is John Edwards' affair different from Saint McCain's? Is it just because he's a Democrat? Bush's "Justice" Department will be asked to investigate those questionable -- hell, SUSPICIOUS -- donors of John McCain's. Oh good. A metric shitload of questions remain on the so-called anthrax investigation The Ron Suskind piece that the Bush misadministration forged data linking al Qaeda to ...

Tape: Top CIA Official Confesses To 9/11-Iraq War Forgery Came From White House
Crooks and Liars — ... The memo subsequently was treated as fact by the British Sunday Telegraph, and cited by William Safire in his New York Times column, providing fodder for Bush’s efforts to take the US to war. [..] ...

Salon: New evidence suggests Ron Suskind is right
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Joe Conason at Salon looks into Ron Suskind's story that Bush had the CIA fake evidence to retroactively justify the US invasion of Iraq. I ignored this story at first, worrying that it was another kooky conspiracy story, but if Joe Conason says it looks credible, then I would tend to believe Joe. Check it out for yourself - Joe digests the story nicely in only one page. ...

New evidence suggests Suskind is right
SquareState.net - Quick Hits's RSS Feed — Joe Conason: "According to Suskind, the administration's highest officials -- presumably meaning President Bush and Vice President Cheney -- solved this problem by ordering the CIA to manufacture a document "proving" that Saddam had indeed been trying to build nuclear weapons and that he was also working with al-Qaida. The reported product of that order was a fake memorandum from Tahir Jalil Habbush, then chief of Saddam's intelligence service, to the dictator himself, dated July 1, 2001. The memo not only explicitly confirmed that 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta had received ...

CIA contra Suskind: "It Did Not Happen."
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... the letter as a fake, and it was later revealed that the letter had been passed to Coughlin by an Iraqi exile politician close to the CIA Ayad Allawi, who reportedly ...

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