EVENT at American Enterprise Institute to begin the push on why the "dangerously incurious" among us are deceiving all patriotic Americans.
I plan to ask a question to see if anyone rises to the bait: "Why do the panelists think the FBI and CIA is so busy investigating who in USG leaked classified intel to our man Chalabi or who is responsible for the yellowcake forgery in Rome instead of these "facts"?"
From AEI.org:
The Iraq-al Qaeda connection has been at the center of much controversy. In his new book, The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America (HarperCollins, June 2004), Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes draws on top-secret intelligence documents and interviews with high-ranking Bush and Clinton administration officials to uncover new information about how America's deadliest opponents worked together--a relationship that stretches back more than a decade and that may include collaboration on terrorist acts, chemical weapons training, and sheltering some of the world's most wanted radicals.
Start: Thursday, June 3, 2004 4:00 PM
End: Thursday, June 3, 2004 6:00 PM
Location: Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036
Directions to AEI
Hayes describes what those links mean for the United States and examines why politicians, journalists, and intelligence experts--even in the face of mounting evidence of a Saddam-bin Laden collaboration--have shown themselves to be dangerously incurious. Please join us for a panel discussion of The Connection.
3:45 p.m.
Registration
4:00 Introduction: Danielle Pletka, AEI
Presentation: Stephen Hayes, The Weekly Standard and author of The Connection
Discussants: Peter Bergen, New America Foundation, CNN, and Johns Hopkins University
R. James Woolsey, former CIA director
Judith Yaphe, National Defense University
Moderator: Michael A. Ledeen, AEI
6:00
Adjournment