[CTRL] CIA Historian Slams Bush's Illegal War Against Iraq

[Sean McBride]

Title: CIA HISTORIAN SLAMS BUSH'S ILLEGAL WAR AGAINST IRAQ

-Caveat Lector- http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?noframes;read=39544   [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] Rumor Mill News Agents Forum CIA HISTORIAN SLAMS BUSH'S ILLEGAL WAR AGAINST IRAQ Posted By: Rosalinda Date: Tuesday, 11 November 2003, 9:39 a.m. [Source: Salon.com News, Saturday, November 8, 2003, ``The White House war with the CIA,'' by Mark Follman.] Thomas Powers, a well-known historian of the CIA, who wrote an authorized biography of former Director Richard Helms, and the current book, {Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al Qaeda}, gave an interview to Salon.com, the online magazine, on Nov. 8, in which he accused the Bush Administration of conducting an illegal war in Iraq, and attempting to scapegoat the CIA. In a long interview with Salon's Mark Follman, Powers accused the Bush Administration of ``flagrant and disastrous misuses of the intelligence system'' to get the Iraq war. ``I think what the Bush administration has done is extremely dangerous. It has conducted what is essentially an illegal war. If circumstances were slightly different in the world, they would be facing a tribunal.'' Powers warned, ``It would be natural for the administration to try to blame the CIA, but on the other hand, there's a limit to the egregious charges it can bring without having the [intelligence community] protest.'' Powers said the pre-war intelligence manipulation by the administration was ``more manufactured, more deliberate, more coldblooded'' than the Gulf of Tonkin incident that escalated the Vietnam War. ``And it was done in plain sight.'' Powers described CIA Director George Tenet as ``a wholly owned property of the White House.'' However, Tenet came under intense pressure from CIA professionals and he got the Justice Department to probe the Valerie Plame leak, which made some people at the White House furious. While Powers did not once mention Dick Cheney's name in the interview, he did zero in on the Office of Special Plans: ``They wanted the war so badly that they were doing everything they could to create pressure for it. With the Office of Special Plans, they were essentially saying to the CIA, `OK, you're not giving us what we want, so we're going to create a new CIA.'"   [ Return to Index ] [ Read Prev Msg ] [ Read Next Msg ] Rumor Mill News Agents Forum is maintained by Forum Admin with WebBBS 5.12. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om