Posted on 04/19/2007 3:39:28 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
I have written an article for this week’s Spectator magazine about Dave Gaubatz, a former USAF special agent who says that in 2003 he discovered four of Saddam’s WMD bunkers — only for the Iraq Survey Group to fail to excavate these sites, allowing the material to be looted by the Iraqis, Syrians and Russia and taken to Syria. If Mr Gaubatz is correct, it means two things: that the invasion of Iraq was more than justified on the grounds originally given, that Saddam was in breach of the terms of the ceasefire of the 1991 war and that he posed an unconscionable threat to the free world; but also that, through American incompetence, the worst case scenario has now been realised — that Saddam’s WMD are in the hands of terrorist regimes waging war against the west.
In the article, I quote from a memorandum sent to Congress earlier this year by John Loftus, organiser of the annual Intelligence Summit conference, asking for a Congressional inquiry into Mr Gaubatz’s claims and the behaviour of John Negroponte, the former Director of National Intelligence and now deputy Secretary of State. Mr Loftus, who was formerly a lawyer with high security clearance in the Attorney General’s office during the Reagan administration and who for the next 25 years specialised in representing intelligence agents, has extensive access to the covert world. His memorandum, which goes much further than Mr Gaubatz’s claims, presents a shocking and, indeed, terrifying analysis which in my view it is important to publicise. I therefore reproduce it here.
(Excerpt) Read more at melaniephillips.com ...
At the 2006 Summit, a tape recording of Saddam discussing his nuclear weapons technology was presented to the public. The tape clearly shows Saddam discussing a progress report on a laser enrichment system for uranium, one of the more advanced methods to make a nuclear bomb. This nuclear technology tape had sat untranslated in a Kuwaiti warehouse along with thousands of shelf feet of captured Intelligence files. Mr. Negroponte had decided to give them a low priority until the 2006 Summit revealed their importance.
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Anyone have any links to the actual audio, or a translation? Jveritas?
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Dan
It was Negropante who shut down the Iraqi documents website because he did not want to publish the documents from the beginning. He really did a great disservice for the nation by doing so.
I do not have a link for the audio. I hope that I can get it so I will translate it and publish the content right here on FR.
What is a "USAF special agent?"
Thanks for posting this. We know of other finds that somehow disappeared from the headlines—have no idea what became of them.
So what. Some empty bunkers, and this war has been so pathetically fought that empty bunkers mean nothing. Every opportunity to blast the islamists into infinity has been passed up. The holy cities should have been glass long ago and not an eye left to shed a tear.
After reading that, I am starting to think Bush downplayed the WMDs because, as MP says, the worst nightmare occurred - they got in the hands of terrorists and terror states during the build up.
I would never have dreamed that our side would mess up that badly—I hope you are wrong, but that could be it.
I'd like to be on the ping list if you have one if and when you post the video link. TIA
If I find it before you, I’ll let you know.
Dan
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Thanks Dan.
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