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Bush Lied- People Died -- Bush Spied - Must Be Tried ! ACLU Suing NSA

over Bush's Illegal Wire tapping and bugging of people's homes and

offices.

 

IMPEACH Bush

 

 

 

http://www.rense.com/general69/proof.htm

 

Proof Bush Deceived America

 

By Ray McGovern

1-14-6

 

" It is no longer credible to maintain that the failures in the Iraqi

intelligence were the product of a broken intelligence community. The

Bush administration deliberately fabricated the case against Iraq,

lying to Congress and the American people along the way. "

 

James Risen's State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush

Administration, may hold bigger secrets than the disclosure that

President George W. Bush authorized warrantless eavesdropping on

Americans.

 

Risen's book also confirms the most damning element of the British

Cabinet Office memos popularly called the " Downing Street memos;

namely, that " the intelligence and the facts were being fixed around

the policy. The result is that it is no longer credible to maintain

that the failures in the Iraqi intelligence were the product of a

broken intelligence community. The Bush administration deliberately

fabricated the case against Iraq, lying to Congress and the American

people along the way.

 

Risen, a senior reporter for The New York Times, reports that British

Prime Minister Tony Blair had an urgent need in the summer of 2002 to

get the equivalent of a " second opinion regarding Bush's plans for war

in Iraq " insight independent of his own telephone conversations with

the president and independent of what Blair was hearing from his own

foreign office.

 

During his April 2002 visit to Crawford, Blair had gone out on a limb

in pledging to support war on Iraq. The following months saw him

getting nervous. So he chose what intelligence parlance calls a " back

channel, and sent the chief of British intelligence, Richard Dearlove,

to Washington to sound out his counterpart: the garrulous CIA director

George Tenet, who he knew to be very close to the president.

 

The highly revealing Downing Street memo contained the minutes of

Dearlove's briefing of Blair and his top advisers upon his return from

Washington on July 23. But what the memo left unanswered was the

question of who gave Dearlove the confidence to say this to his prime

minister:

 

Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove

Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of

terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and the facts were being fixed

around the policy.

 

When the Sunday Times published the minutes of that key briefing on

May 1, 2005, it seemed a safe bet that Dearlove's source was Tenet,

and I said so.

 

Now we have the confirmation. Risen writes that George Tenet was

reluctant to receive Dearlove, but acquiesced when the British made

clear that Blair considered the back-channel meeting urgent. Tenet

then rose to the occasion " with a vengeance. Risen, quoting a former

senior CIA official who helped host the British for a session that

lasted most of Saturday, July 20, 2002, reports that Tenet and

Dearlove had a 90-minute one-on-one conversation, during which Tenet

was " very candid.

 

Risen adds that by the time of this " intelligence summit, senior CIA

officials had concluded that " the quality of the intelligence on

weapons of mass destruction didn,t really matter, since war was

inevitable. That perverse attitude certainly prevailed two months

later, when the fabricated National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq and

WMD was produced by Tenet's National Intelligence Council in a

successful attempt to deceive Congress into voting for war.

 

A former CIA official told Risen that after the conversation with

Tenet, Richard Dearlove could certainly " figure out what was going on;

plus, the MI6 station chief in Washington was in CIA headquarters all

the time, with just about complete access to everything. In any case,

we now know that Blair got what he wanted out of the visit " the inside

scoop from someone enjoying the complete trust of, and daily access

to, President Bush.

 

The president now says that he does not want his political opposition

to dwell on how he lied to Congress and the American people in order

to invade a country and kill tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and

more than 2,200 U. S. troops " not to mention the many thousands maimed

for life. Perhaps he knows that Risen's book could do as much damage

to his administration by calling renewed attention to the Downing

Street memos as is likely to be done by the revelations of the secret

NSA wiretapping.

 

One world leader recognizes the extreme danger of official lies told

to a nation in the service of an aggressive war. He also happens to be

a leader who survived the horrors of fascism in the last century. In a

Jan. 1 address to the world, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the

consequences of lies such as these, in what can only be a thinly

veiled reference to the president of the United States:

 

Sacred Scripture, in its very first book, Genesis, points to the lie

told at the very beginning of history by the animal with a forked

tongue, whom the Evangelist John calls ''the father of lies'' (Jn

8:44). Lying is also one of the sins spoken of in the final chapter of

the last book of the Bible, Revelation, which bars liars from the

heavenly Jerusalem: ''outside are... all who love falsehood'' (22:15).

Lying is linked to the tragedy of sin and its perverse consequences,

which have had, and continue to have, devastating effects on the lives

of individuals and nations. We need but think of the events of the

past century, when aberrant ideological and political systems wilfully

twisted the truth and brought about the exploitation and murder of an

appalling number of men and women, wiping out entire families and

communities. After experiences like these, how can we fail to be

seriously concerned about lies in our own time, lies which are the

framework for menacing scenarios of death in many parts of the world.

 

The ethos of the Central Intelligence Agency in which my

contemporaries and I worked was chiseled into the marble at the

entrance of CIA headquarters: " You will know the truth, and the truth

will set you free. "

 

Sadly, the agency has come a long way.

 

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Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the

ecumenical Church of the Saviour. A 27-year veteran of the CIA's

analysis ranks, he is now on the steering group of Veteran

Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).

 

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