Um Congressman, you want to produce a diary about this?
Former Bush administration official David Welch and Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) are singled out as allies of the now-deposed Libyan regime of Muammar Qaddafi, in documents found in the building that used to house Libya's intelligence headquarters, Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reports.
The story is from Talking Points Memo, but the person who broke it is from Al Jazeera
The document suggests that Kucinich wanted any evidence of corruption at the Libyan National Transitional Council, any possible links within rebel ranks to al-Qaeda, and any evidence "that The Leader had already planned to step down before the uprisings." The information would be used in a "lawsuit against NATO/UN/USA," to publicity reform the image of the regime and to help negotiating positions, according to a document.
"Al Jazeera found a document written by a Libyan bureaucrat to other Libyan bureaucrats," Kucinich said in a statement to TPM. "All it proves is that the Libyans were reading the Washington Post, and read there about my efforts to stop the war."
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Here is the Congressman's response.
"I can't help what the Libyans put in their files. My opposition to the war in Libya, even before it formally started, was public and well known," Kucinich said.
"My questions about the legitimacy of the war, who the opposition was, and what NATO was doing, were also well known and consistent with my official duties," he continued. "Any implication I was doing anything other than trying to bring an end to an unauthorized war is fiction."
TPM link go read it the papers implicate a Bush official too, but I expect that kind of thing from them.
Now TPM rightly points out that the Congressman didn’t deny having contact with Libyan officials. However let me just say WTF. That wasn’t questioning the legitimacy of that was promoting the position of. Dennis Kucinich was making plans to smear the legitimate aspirations of the Libyan people in favor of Qaddafi. Now when taken with other reports of his admiration for Bashir Assad of Syria allow me to say you sir are either a world class dupe or you have the poorest judgment in the world in either case you’re an embarrassment.
2:09 PM PT: http://www.dailykos.com/...
Clay Claiborne has a diary erm post up right after this one also discussing it. In it he goes into greater detail of the Al Jazeera reporting. He also provided this video I think deserves to be here too.
Please go and give Clay some mojo.