Miller and Chalabi are SO 2004
August 9, 2005 7:14 AM Subscribe
Slate's Today's Papers went the extra op-ed mile today to discuss an NYT front page story that alleges that DOD intelligence pegged 3 of the 9/11 hijackers as al-Qaeda agents in the U.S. back in 2000. Remember, this is the same DOD that, under Rumsfeld, wants to establish its own intelligence agency outside of the CIA, having bumbled an earlier incarnation. The problem? The article is primarily sourced to Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) and the ubiquitous "unnamed defense official". Weldon's primary source is an associat of Manucher Gorbanifar, "a well-known Iranian exile whom the CIA branded as a fabricator during the 1980s but who was used by the Reagan White House as a middleman for the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran." Oh, and he's got a new book out. The NYT has apparently learned nothing.
Apologies if this seems like a derail, but from the link to the earlier incantation of an intelligence agency:
The OSI would have been a center for the creation of propaganda materials, for the stated purpose of misleading enemy forces or their civilian populations.
That doesn't sound like what a military intelligence agency does. There is an intelligence agency that's already separate from the CIA and has the DoD as its main customer: it's the DIA.
posted by alumshubby at 8:19 AM on August 9, 2005
The OSI would have been a center for the creation of propaganda materials, for the stated purpose of misleading enemy forces or their civilian populations.
That doesn't sound like what a military intelligence agency does. There is an intelligence agency that's already separate from the CIA and has the DoD as its main customer: it's the DIA.
posted by alumshubby at 8:19 AM on August 9, 2005
Damn you, liberal media!
posted by klangklangston at 8:48 AM on August 9, 2005
posted by klangklangston at 8:48 AM on August 9, 2005
If it's any consolation, as soon as Boeing finally pulls the remaining pieces of its military helicopter plant out of Ridley Park, PA, Mr. Weldon will be out of a job — much like a majority of his constituents, unfortunately.
posted by Rothko at 9:33 AM on August 9, 2005
posted by Rothko at 9:33 AM on August 9, 2005
Weldon's district seems to be within the Senate district that brings us Rick Santorum. Bang up job in choosing your representatives, people.
posted by iron chef morimoto at 4:17 PM on August 9, 2005
posted by iron chef morimoto at 4:17 PM on August 9, 2005
I'm bemused. Why are the BBC going with this?
Maybe it's true.
posted by mrgrimm at 5:39 PM on August 18, 2005
Maybe it's true.
posted by mrgrimm at 5:39 PM on August 18, 2005
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