A former senior CIA official, Bill Christison, says Georgia may have received the green light from the US to attack South Ossetia.
Christison made the statement in response to Press TV correspondent's question whether or not Washington gave the go ahead for Georgia to launch its attack.
The CIA political analyst said that there were quite a few people in the US that supported this kind of conflict and wanted the US to change its position in the Middle East and Central Asia.
He said it was highly possible that Washington actually encouraged Georgia to attack South Ossetia.
After Ron Suskind Reveals Bush Admin Ordered Iraq-9/11 Fakery, House Judiciary Chair John Conyers Opens Congressional Probe
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind joins us for ... an interview on his new book, The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism. Suskind reports that in 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and disseminate false intelligence documents linking al-Qaeda and Iraq....
How can impeachment be off the table if over 4,000 American troops were killed, tens of thousands more injured, not to mention all of the Iraqis who have been killed, displaced or had their lives ruined when intelligence officials spoke on the record about Bush knowing that Iraq had no WMDs, yet repeated this charge over and over and over and over?
Of course there were flat out denials of this by those close to the White House, as well as many rightist bloggers. But they have denied other lies and actions that have been proven to have occurred (or not occurred), or said (or not said) when it comes to this administration and its’ enablers in Congress.
Tweet against torture? Absolutely, says one of the newest members to the Twitter social networking site, ciaTweets. Wait: the CIA now has a presence on Twitter? Kinda! Whether they like it or not.
Brand communication agency Cow reports that Exxon, Ford Motor Company, and many other major companies risk being ‘brand-jacked’ online. A recent survey of the most highly capitalized companies on the London Stock Exchange reveals that nearly 70 percent of the FTSE100 have left their company or brand ID on the micro blogging platform Twitter unclaimed.
Major companies? Hmmm... What about "the Company"? Let's just say that the new ciaTweets is known by the Company it tweaks (and Tweets).
The gist: "The White House had concocted a fake letter" from Saddam Hussein's intelligence director, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, "backdated to July 1, 2001," that said Mohammad Atta, the believed leader of the 9/11 attacks, had trained in Iraq. The CIA was supposedly told to make it happen.
Suskind's assertions are powerful, and they were promptly rebutted, not only by former CIA Director George Tenet, but also by one of Suskind's own sources, former Tenet deputy Robert Richer.
But wait, that's just the backstory. The Big Damning Story -- the one that got lost in the Friday hubbub (gosh what a surprise) -- is over the bump ...
Americans almost universally agree that terrorism is an unacceptable, evil means by which to attempt to achieve a political objective. What the Bush Administration is guilty of, in case anyone is fuzzy about this, is sustaining an al Qaeda terrorist operation for its perceived political and foreign policy value, at the price of Nick Berg's head as well as the death, dismemberment, and otherwise physical and/or emotional wreckage of thousands of other innocent civilians.
Read the transcript of Ron Suskind's taped interview with former ranking CIA officer Rob Richer, now posted at Suskind's website: http://www.ronsuskind.com/... It reconciles what both Suskind and Phil Giraldi have been saying about the Iraq forgery letter. They agree on all main points.
The earlier media accounts emphasized Suskind's narrative that George Tenet handed the forgery down the CIA chain of command.
In a published comment, Phil Giraldi (former head of CIA counter-terrorism) said, no, the point of origin of the letter was Cheney's office, and the actual forgery was done by Feith's shop at the Pentagon, OSP. See, http://www.amconmag.com/...
Read the following -- the whole thing -- everyone is in agreement, the written order came "from downtown" on cream-colored White House letterhead.
On Countdown on August 1st, I watched Keith Olbermann interview Gerald Posner, the investigative reporter working on the anthrax case. This is how that interview concluded:
Olbermann: Do you see a scenario in which simply this government took advantage of this situation, whether or not... let’s assume for a moment that there’s no proactivity, that this was Dr. Ivins flipping out to whatever degree was required to do this, that the government simply took advantage of this to use it as a tool to build up a case to go to war in Iraq?
Posner: I have absolutely no doubt about that. From everything that I’ve done on my own investigation following up from 2001, I am now more convinced than ever that there were individuals inside the Bush administration and in the government who wanted the war in Iraq so badly that they decided if there was something that they could use to push it forward, they would. Anthrax fell into their lap. Even if he is a deranged solo killer, they used it in order to scare this country and say Iraq is somebody we have to go after, and we did.
But who were these individuals that wanted the war this badly?
Osama bin Laden's personal driver and bodyguard, who made the magisterial sum of $200 per month, 34-year-old Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was held years without charges at Guantanamo Naval Base prison, has just been found guilty of lesser charges in the first of a series of planned "military commission" trials by the Bush Administration. Comprehensive news coverage of the Hamdan trial can be found at the Miami Herald.
Hamdan was found not guilty on two counts of conspiracy to foment terrorism in league with Al Qaeda. He was found guilty on five of eight charges of providing material support to terrorists. He has yet to be sentenced, and faces possible life imprisonment. In any case, the Bush Administration has already said that whatever the verdict or sentence, no "enemy combatant" will be released until the "war on terror" is over, i.e., until hell freezes over.
Suskind's new book on the impeachable offense of lying us into the Iraq War is making waves around the world. His documentation of the Bush Administration's abuse of the CIA, hush money to the Chief Iraqi Intelligence official to keep him quiet about the lack of WMD's in Saddam's arsenal, and manipulation of various insiders such as Colin Powell to promote their deceptions, is also creating a fire storm in DC.
Because he has all of the tapes of all of his interviews, White House attempts to deny, or label him as a sleezy muck raker, will not stand up.
Ron Neitzke, noblest of American diplomats, handing me his excoriation of the U.S. government and State Department for "repeatedly and gratuitously dishonoring the Bosnians in the very hour of their genocide" and urging future Foreign Service officers to be "guided by the belief that a policy fundamentally at odds with our national conscience cannot endure indefinitely — if that conscience is well and truthfully informed."
As I write it is late Tuesday afternoon. The quote, from which my title is taken, comes from a column by Roger Cohen about which I wrote July 24, in I am so tempted to violate copyright
Our traditional media has failed miserably in informing the American public about policy fundamentally at odds with our national conscience and so such policies have endured. Today I propose to remind myself, and those who choose to read this diary, of policies fundamentally at odds with our national conscience. That is, they should be, because if they are not, if they are acceptable, then we are lost already and there is no point in our being here.
The Six Million Dollar Man By Lori Price 06 Aug 2008 According to Ron Suskind in his book, 'The Way of the World,' Iraq Intelligence Director Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti collected a cool $5 million from the CIA for forging a backdated letter for Bush's henchmen. But, if you turn him in through the US 'Rewards for Justice' program, you can collect up to a million bucks!
"The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001. It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq – thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al Qaeda, something the Vice President’s Office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link."
Ron Suskind has a new book coming out that reveals, among other things, that the White House authorized the CIA to backdate a forged memo from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein that purported to show that lead-hijacker Mohammed Atta was trained in Iraq in the summer of 2001. The memo was created by the CIA and leaked to Con Coughlin of the UK Telegraph, who dutifully wrote it up on December 14, 2003, the same day that Saddam Hussein was 'pulled from a spiderhole' near Tikrit.
Hold on to your hats -- according to Ron Suskind's new book, the White House is directly implicated in the plot to forge a document, with the intention to lie us into war with Iraq.
Six "High-Value" Guantánamo Prisoners Held, Plus "Ghost Prisoner" Mustafa Setmariam Nasar
The existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the "War on Terror," and yesterday’s revelations in TIME -- based on disclosures by a "senior American official" (now retired), who was "a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings" after the 9/11 attacks, and who reported that "a CIA counter-terrorism official twice said that a high-value prisoner or prisoners were being interrogated on the island" -- will come as no surprise to those who have been studying the story closely
Of this, I believe. I believe in honesty and empathy. I trust in reports that reveal in 2002, the Department of Justice assured the Central Intelligence Agency interrogators who violated anti-torture laws they would be safe from prosecution. Emissaries only need a sincere "faith they caused no "prolonged mental harm." I believe that neither branch of government cares for what I hold dear.
Tweet against torture? Absolutely, says one of the newest members to the Twitter social networking site, 
