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More Details on Bush Admin Iraq Forgery Allegations

By Chris Nolan, Majikthise. Posted August 7, 2008.


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Louis Bayard details Ron Suskind's claim that George Tenet ordered CIA officials Rob Richer and John Maguire to forge a letter from Iraqi security chief Habbush to Saddam Hussein.

The letter was a fictional smoking gun tying Iraq to 9/11.

It's generally accepted that the Habbush letter is a forgery.

The question remains, who forged it? Juan Cole suspects that Habbush forged the letter himself and that the CIA "authenticated" it in bad faith through its asset Ayad Allawi--whom journalist Con Coughlin contacted to vouchsafe the letter's authenticity after it was leaked to him.

What's novel and remarkable is that Suskind got Richer and Maguire to claim on the record that George Tenet ordered them to forge it.

Suskind believes the White House ordered the forgery in response to Joe Wilson's 2003 op-ed debunking many of the administration's lies about Saddam Hussein's alleged attempts to obtain uranium from Niger.



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Lindsay Beyerstein a New York writer blogging at Majikthise.

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What else is needed
Posted by: progressive-life on Aug 7, 2008 5:35 AM   
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Should this be confirmed and not just speculation that cannot be proved, what else is needed to bring all those involved in this administration to trial.

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The bodies are rising
Posted by: amacd on Aug 8, 2008 8:08 AM   
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The Ivins suicide and framed anthrax case, and Suskind revealing the Bush faked letter of Jalil Habbush in the same week sure is bringing the buried bodies in this Iraq war crime to the surface.

— Posted by Alan MacDonald

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Nancy Do Nothing Pelosi!!
Posted by: weslen1 on Aug 8, 2008 9:20 AM   
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Nancy Pelosi SAID that if there were ANY proof that the Bush Administration broke the law, impeachment hearings would begin. However the only thing she would consider PROOF is if she were able to go back in time, attach herself to Bush's shoulder and watch for herself.
Stall Stall Stall.
Good Job Pelosi!!

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ATH
Posted by: ATH on Aug 8, 2008 9:43 AM   
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The reason Nancy Pelosi will not allow impeachment hearings is because she would be implicated in war crimes herself.
She was briefed on the whole torture and rendition program and signed off on it.
She is in league with Bush and Cheney.
Any other non-guilty, respectful House Speaker would have had the Juciciary Committee
begin impeachment hearings and investigations immediately after elected to office.
There is no debate about whether this administration has broken the law, and committed High Crimes and Misdemeanors deserving of not only impeachment but of prosecution before the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Bush and Cheney love their Tribunals so much, let them be dealt justice through the International Court in the Hague, Netherlands--while its citizens smoke high grade cannabis and watch in their coffee shops with grins of satisfaction that Justice has prevailed.
Unfortunately, we now live in a fascist police state, and that scenario is a dream, until the U.S crashes--which it's going to-and International authorities come in and take over, since Americans refuse to handle this business ourselves, breaking their Oaths of Office to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.

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Impeachable offense or High Treason..?
Posted by: TJColatrella on Aug 8, 2008 11:44 AM   
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To think that this administration at a time after we were attacked and had legitimate serious security concerns and an unfinished mission to go after those who actually attacked and killed nearly 3 thousand individuals here on our soil, chose to Lie to divert that mission so as to involved us in a huge more costly quagmire that has done to much harm to our forces and our treasury is worse than an Impeachable offense, it borders on High Treason..!

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Where is the opposition?
Posted by: modeler on Aug 8, 2008 12:20 PM   
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Nancy Pelosi needs to be replaced with somebody who knows when laws are broken by the Bushmen and acts in a proper fashion, like maybe impeachment?

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