Day: October 19, 2005

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YR247 Financial Times reports Cheney ‘cabal’ hijacked foreign policy

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Vice-President Dick Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the government’s foreign policy apparatus, deciding in secret to carry out policies that had left the US weaker and more isolated in the world, the top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell claimed on Wednesday.

In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: �What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.

�Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.�

from FT.COM via Chris Weagel

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Bloatergate: Judith Miller was part of the White House Iraq Team!

This shit is totally Illegal. Recall: It is illegal to propagandize inside the United States.

Former intelligence agents have told the New York Daily News that members of the White House Iraq Group funnelled information to Judith Miller and that she was a “charter member” of the group.

There were a number of occasions when White House officials or Vice President [Cheney’s] staffers, or others, wanted to push the envelope on things,” an ex-intelligence official said. “The agency would say, ‘We just don’t have the intelligence to substantiate that.'” When Wilson was sent by his wife to Africa to research the claims, he showed the documents claiming Saddam tried to buy the uranium were forgeries. “People in the Iraq group then got very frustrated. It was a side show,” said a source familiar with WHIG.

Besides Rove and Libby, the group included senior White House aides Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin, James Wilkinson, Nicholas Calio, Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley. WHIG also was doing more than just public relations, said a second former intel officer. “They were funneling information to [New York Times reporter] Judy Miller. Judy was a charter member,” the source said.

from NY Daily News/Talk Left