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New Book Reveals Secret War Operations (NYT&James Risen's Bunk of the Month entry)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/2/06 | AP - Washington

Posted on 01/02/2006 3:45:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON - A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes how the CIA recruited an Iraqi-American anesthesiologist in 2002 to obtain information from her brother, who was a figure in Saddam Hussein's nuclear program.

Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade.

New York Times reporter James Risen uses the anecdote to illustrate how the CIA ignored information that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction. His book, "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration" describes secret operations of the Bush administration's war on terrorism.

The major revelation in the book has already been the subject of extensive reporting by Risen's newspaper: the National Security Agency's eavesdropping of Americans' conversations without obtaining warrants from a special court.

The book said Dr. Alhaddad flew home in mid-September 2002 and had a series of meetings with CIA analysts. She relayed her brother's information that there was no nuclear program.

A CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency believed her brother was lying. In all, the book says, some 30 family members of Iraqis made trips to their native country to contact Iraqi weapons scientists, and all of them reported that the programs had been abandoned.

In October 2002, a month after the doctor's trip to Baghdad, the U.S intelligence community issued a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program.

In the book, which quotes extensively from anonymous sources, Risen said the NSA spying program was launched in 2002 after the CIA began to capture high-ranking al-Qaida operatives overseas, and took their computers, cell phones and personal phone directories.

The CIA turned the telephone numbers and e-mail addresses from the material over to the NSA, which then began monitoring the phone numbers — in addition to anyone in contact with the telephone subscribers, the book said, saying this led to an expansion of the monitoring, both overseas and in the United States.

The book said the NSA does not need approval from the White House, the Justice Department or anyone else in the Bush administration before it begins eavesdropping on a specific phone line in the United States.

In another chapter on a "rogue operation," the book said a CIA officer mistakenly sent one of its Iranian agents information that could be used to identify virtually every spy the agency had in Iran. The book said the Iranian was a double agent who turned over the data to Iranian security officials.

The book said the information severely damaged the CIA's Iranian network, and quoted CIA sources as saying several of the U.S. agents were arrested and jailed.


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1 posted on 01/02/2006 3:45:55 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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In the book, which quotes extensively from anonymous sources

Jay Rockefeller...Howard Dean...HRClinton...

2 posted on 01/02/2006 3:49:30 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you. --Elmer Davis)
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A new book on the government's secret anti-terrorism operations describes ...

MSM Treason ...

3 posted on 01/02/2006 3:50:01 PM PST by TexGuy
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Every time a bit of good news slips past the msm, the ol' "no WMD" is trotted out again to keep folks in line.


4 posted on 01/02/2006 3:50:29 PM PST by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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Hopefully, Risen will be sent to prison for providing this secret information to the murderers who want to destroy America and kill Americans.


5 posted on 01/02/2006 3:51:24 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
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To: NormsRevenge

insert string of expletives - HERE.....

will be back when can speak in coherent terms.....that won't get me banned....


6 posted on 01/02/2006 3:52:11 PM PST by eeevil conservative (courage is living in tyranny and speaking for freedom/not living in freedom and speaking for tyranny)
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"Dr. Sawsan Alhaddad of Cleveland made the dangerous trip to Iraq on the CIA's behalf. The book said her brother was stunned by her questions about the nuclear program because — he said — it had been dead for a decade. '

So according to crAP, the Slimes, and soon the rest of the DNC Whore media, outing this CIA operative is good. Meanwhile the outing (BS outing at that) of that idiot Wilson's wife is bad.

The Old MSM expects us to not see through that?

Time to start outing these traitors in the Old MSM and call them what they are!!!


7 posted on 01/02/2006 3:53:06 PM PST by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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ROFLLLLLLL!!!

Kraut predicts that Brokeback is seen by 14 people~

ROFLLLLLLLLLL!!

I LOVE THAT MAN!


8 posted on 01/02/2006 3:53:14 PM PST by eeevil conservative (courage is living in tyranny and speaking for freedom/not living in freedom and speaking for tyranny)
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There is another book coming out from Robert Parry, from AP and Newsweek dishonor, that will be a max barfer.


9 posted on 01/02/2006 3:56:21 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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I saw that he also predicted the dead of Fidel, not that he knows anything secret, he is just overdue.


10 posted on 01/02/2006 3:58:21 PM PST by mware (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.")
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LOL 14 people BUT it will be the right 14 people and it will win academy awards.

Krauthammer is a hoot.

11 posted on 01/02/2006 3:59:16 PM PST by mware (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.")
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Gee, I wonder why they held off the book...oops, I mean the article for a year.

Has a familiar ring...Wilson did the same thing.

12 posted on 01/02/2006 4:02:12 PM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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He so rocks!

LOL! I thought his list was great-- hope they all come true!!! Killing The Z-thug in Iraq was on his list too wasn't it?


14 posted on 01/02/2006 4:08:16 PM PST by eeevil conservative (courage is living in tyranny and speaking for freedom/not living in freedom and speaking for tyranny)
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A CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency believed her brother was lying.

There's no way the brother could've been lying; otherwise, it would mean that Bush and the CIA were right all along. The NY Times would rather believe an agent of Saddam.
15 posted on 01/02/2006 4:10:05 PM PST by adorno
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Cant remember if he predicted Z-mans death.

He did say that Iran will have pushed the envelope as far as possible.

16 posted on 01/02/2006 4:11:40 PM PST by mware (everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.")
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hmmmm someone predicted his death....

I love the part about Cuba becoming America's favorite resort! LOL! (a Club Gitmo pun maybe?)


17 posted on 01/02/2006 4:16:20 PM PST by eeevil conservative (courage is living in tyranny and speaking for freedom/not living in freedom and speaking for tyranny)
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To: NormsRevenge
I see some information in there that may have gotten some poeple killed!

DAMN! DO NOT PASS GO! DO NOT COLLECT $200! GO TO JAIL! BETTER YET, GO BEFORE THE FIRING SQUAD!

18 posted on 01/02/2006 4:19:56 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound (In Memory of James W. Bruhn, November, 1966, Vietnam)
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Arrest the author, burn the books, and prosecute the NYT and book-publisher to the fullest extent of the law!!!!!


19 posted on 01/02/2006 4:20:19 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America)
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20 posted on 01/02/2006 4:41:18 PM PST by StAnDeliver
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