White House whitewashes Lewis Libby Indictment
by Iqbal Jassat
(Sunday November 13 2005)
"The indictment ought to have grave consequences for the Bush regime’s ability to continue its reckless foreign policy and repression of internal civil liberties."
Revelations surrounding the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby may appear to sound familiar in the settings of a pre-colonial era.
Conspiracies, cover-ups, lies, deceit and denials are the ingredients usually associated with regimes bent on deceiving ordinary folk in order to continue pursuing illegitimate conduct.
Yet the theatre in which the drama of injecting dubious intelligence data in a highly sophisticated criminal enterprise is not in some remote third-world country – it is in the heart of America!
While Libby maybe at the centre of the current storm, he is an integral part of the Bush administration. As vice president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, he together with his neo-con thugs was responsible for deceiving Congress about Iraq’s WMD capabilities.
Scott Ritter, a former chief UN weapons inspector, is quite categorical in fingering Libby. He goes further by accusing Cheney as well as being behind the decision to mislead the investigation into the reasons why the US spooks had gotten it so wrong.
He claims that acting at the behest of Cheney, Libby was a key figure behind inserting unverified intelligence information alleging the existence of Iraqi WMD into the public arena. This was routinely done through “leaking this information to reporters such as the New York Times’ Judith Miller, or by having it referenced in high-profile speeches such as the president’s 2003 State of the Union Address or Colin Powell’s now-infamous presentation to the Security Council in February 2003”... http://tinyurl.com/9qzs8
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by Iqbal Jassat
(Sunday November 13 2005)
"The indictment ought to have grave consequences for the Bush regime’s ability to continue its reckless foreign policy and repression of internal civil liberties."
Revelations surrounding the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby may appear to sound familiar in the settings of a pre-colonial era.
Conspiracies, cover-ups, lies, deceit and denials are the ingredients usually associated with regimes bent on deceiving ordinary folk in order to continue pursuing illegitimate conduct.
Yet the theatre in which the drama of injecting dubious intelligence data in a highly sophisticated criminal enterprise is not in some remote third-world country – it is in the heart of America!
While Libby maybe at the centre of the current storm, he is an integral part of the Bush administration. As vice president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, he together with his neo-con thugs was responsible for deceiving Congress about Iraq’s WMD capabilities.
Scott Ritter, a former chief UN weapons inspector, is quite categorical in fingering Libby. He goes further by accusing Cheney as well as being behind the decision to mislead the investigation into the reasons why the US spooks had gotten it so wrong.
He claims that acting at the behest of Cheney, Libby was a key figure behind inserting unverified intelligence information alleging the existence of Iraqi WMD into the public arena. This was routinely done through “leaking this information to reporters such as the New York Times’ Judith Miller, or by having it referenced in high-profile speeches such as the president’s 2003 State of the Union Address or Colin Powell’s now-infamous presentation to the Security Council in February 2003”... http://tinyurl.com/9qzs8
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