Secret office exaggerated Iraq reports [Google translation]

Zeit via Sueddeutsche ^ | 10/29/2003

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US Ministry of Defense

Secret office exaggerated Iraq reports

In the Pentagon allegedly reports about Iraq were systematically exaggerated under the direction of vice-president Cheney and sent to the White House. Since August 2002 all Iraq dossiers were provided with prefabricated text modules, reports the Zeit.

The weekly paper for its on Wednesday first published report refers to witnesses from US authorities.

In the so called "Office of Special Plans" of the Pentagon since August 2002 under the direction of vice-president Dick Cheney all dossiers on Iraq were provided with prefabricated text modules, reports a former female employee of the Ministry.

Therein it was called among other things, Saddam Hussein cooperates with Osama bin Laden and has contact with the terrorists of 11th September.

The reports of the special office were submitted not, as otherwise usual, to other US intelligence services for examination, but landed directly in the White House. Main source of the Pentagon department were Iraqi defectors, who themselves had an interest in the fall of Saddam Hussein, as the newspaper reports.

Geheimdienstler [agents] of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who considered the dossiers of the special office wrong, were pressurized to write politically conformal estimates, reported several former coworkers of the authority.

Other US intelligence services, like those of the foreign and energy Ministry, had contradicted the fright messages from the Rumsfeld Ministry expressly, their representations did not enter into the total analysis about Iraq however. On basis of this total analysis US Congress had agreed of the war.

(sueddeutsche.de/AP)

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suedeutsche.de

other references of said Zeit report:
tagesschau.de
Focus
standard.at
presseportal.de
bbv-net.de
Yahoo.de

[Grampa Dave]

We have an obvious DUBONICS ATTACK here!

[Reagan Man]

Trash!

[RobertM]

Show me the proof, don't just open your mouth. Do you really think that I would believe you. As far as i'm concerned this is B.S.

[Grampa Dave]

Please ping the Viking Kitties, we have slithering/slimy/lying/stinking troll on board here.

[zippoman]

Frontline did a show on it. It is hardly secret.

[Pikamax]

half of this stuff looks be taken from google and washington post.

[Mo1]

Ya think ..

[Grampa Dave]

Alert to a DUBONICS ATTACK by a slithering, slimy, smelly, lying Troll.

[xzins]

The translation is so bad I can't tell what it means.

What is a "pressurized" agent?

I saw Sean Connery in a deep sea suit once.

Lots of accusations are made and not one shred of evidence is presented. Someone needs to have at least a bit of proof when they come on Free Republic and spew trash.

[Grampa Dave]

[MJY1288]

What the hay is this garbage doing in BREAKING NEWS, This is DUBONICS translated in Clintonese

[lysie]

The translation is so bad I can't tell what it means.

Oh good. Thank you for mentioning that. I thought it was me needing about a gallon of coffee.

[Grampa Dave]

It is fairly obvious with this garbage, Homeland Security should investigate this clown to see if his Visa is valid.

If he is here illegally, wrap him up and send him to Gitmo to find out who coordinates this bs.

Of course he could be a result of being exposed to Ebonics and DUbonics instead an education in the Public Schools!

[zippoman]

NARRATOR: Four days later, the president and his cabinet gathered at Camp David to formulate strategy in the war on terrorism. President Bush told cabinet members that if Saddam Hussein was to become a target, they needed to dig up evidence that he was cooperating with al Qaeda.

Within days, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz directed one of his deputies, Douglas Feith, to set up a special office inside the Pentagon that would examine the intelligence regarding Iraq's possible connection with al Qaeda.

It started as a small, secretive operation.

RICHARD PERLE: It was very simple. It was clear that no one had been looking for links of a kind that it was reasonable to consider might exist. We didn't know whether they existed, and the evidence might have been that they didn't exist. So some people were brought in to take a look. And within a very short period of time, they began to find links that nobody else had previously understood.

NARRATOR: When it came to Iraq, the special intelligence office didn't trust what the CIA or even their own Defense Intelligence Agency had to say. They did apparently listen to Ahmad Chalabi. According to one Pentagon source, he visited once every other month. Across the Potomac, Greg Thielmann had analyzed intelligence for the State Department for seven years.

GREG THIELMANN, U.S. Dept. of State (1977-02): That office was largely invisible to us in the intelligence community because they didn't-- they didn't play in the-- in the normal bureaucratic process of making intelligence assessments and reporting on those assessments.

MARTIN SMITH: What did you understand that office to be about?

GREG THIELMANN: I am still trying to figure out what that office was about. The office wasn't big enough for them to really have the expertise in-house, and the mere creation of the office was odd, since the secretary of defense had the entire Defense Intelligence Agency at his disposal. So it's a little mysterious what exactly they were doing.

RICHARD PERLE: Let me be blunt about this. The level of competence of the Central Intelligence Agency in this area is appalling. They had filtered out the whole set of possibilities because it was inconsistent with their model. So if you're walking down the street and you're not looking for hidden treasure, you won't find it.

MARTIN SMITH: Conversely, if you look for something, you will find it, simply because you are looking. And the nature of intelligence is -- is very often vague, and things can be interpreted one way or another.

RICHARD PERLE: Of course. There's no absolute truth in this.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/truth/etc/script.html

[m1-lightning]

Who's the source of this blather?

[xzins]

Don't misunderstand me....I love coffee, and it's not fair that you get coffee and I don't...

but that was one lousy translation.

(So...how 'bout some coffee?) :>)

[ventana]

No, Pika, from the DNC. For heaven's sakes keep your sources straight! V's wife.

[stck]

The thread title clearly states "Google translation" (look again if you didn't see it). It may suck, but is certainly not too difficult to understand.

[xzins]

Yep, it sucks AND it loses something in translation.


So there ya have it....my opinion.

Backed up by just as must fact as this article.