Remember this face when the next terrorists kill one of our family and/or friends. Not only will the New York Times be caught in a class action lawsuit, so will Risen, for leaking classified information meant to protect the "AMERICAN PEOPLE"!
Posted on 01/02/2006 3:45:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Risen is nothing but a political hack!
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June 25, 2003 by the New York Times
Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence
by James Risen and Douglas Jehl
"Mr. Westermann's decision to speak out has caused a stir inside the House and Senate intelligence committees."
WASHINGTON, June 24 — A top State Department expert on chemical and biological weapons told Congressional committees in closed-door hearings last week that he had been pressed to tailor his analysis on Iraq and other matters to conform with the Bush administration's views, several Congressional officials said today.
The officials described what they said was a dramatic moment at a House Intelligence Committee hearing last week when the weapons expert came forward to tell Congress he had felt such pressure.
By speaking out, they said, the senior intelligence expert, identified by several officials as Christian Westermann, became the first member of the intelligence community on active service to make this sort of admission to members of Congress...
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A number of analysts have suggested that they felt less direct pressure on reports concerning the status of Iraq's unconventional weapons, but were angered that senior Bush administration officials selectively disclosed classified intelligence reports that supported the worst-case scenario concerning Iraq's weapons programs, making it seem as if there was an imminent threat to the United States.
The analysts believe that in some cases, White House and Pentagon officials made public statements about Iraq's weapons based on intelligence that was far from definitive.
An administration official said that Mr. Westermann had clashed repeatedly with Mr. Bolton.
A State Department official sympathetic to Mr. Bolton's views said of Mr. Westermann, "He doesn't have anything that he can point to, and he doesn't have anything more recent than Cuba." That official added, "We're in a period where people are looking for particular evidence of intelligence being altered, and he's talking about mood swings."
But other administration officials said there had been ongoing tensions between the two since the Cuban issue first came up, to the point that Mr. Bolton has unsuccessfully sought to have Mr. Westermann reassigned.
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Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell praised Mr. Westermann in 2003 for providing confidential testimony to the Senate intelligence panel about his disagreements on arms matters. Mr. Powell said he was "pleased" that Mr. Westermann had "honestly answered" when asked about pressure to describe undue influence on intelligence on Iraq.
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Aide: State Dept. Bureaucrat ‘Lied' About E-mail
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax.com
Monday, April 18, 2005
Bush critics in the Senate are working overtime to discredit John Bolton, the nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
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Although Westermann was never reassigned as a result of his run-in with Bolton, two of Westermann's supervisors, Neil Silver and Tom Fingar, confirmed that Bolton wanted Westermann reassigned. But one manager - Carl Ford - claimed to an SFRC hearing last week that Bolton wanted Westermann fired.
Meanwhile, Frederick Fleitz, a CIA officer on detail to John Bolton's staff as a special assistant, has not only disputed Westermann's version of events but says the State Dept. analyst lied about his actions.
In a deposition made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Fleitz testified:
# Westermann sent an e-mail that was so partial that the clearing agency for the Cuban intelligence in question, the Central Intelligence Agency, could not make out what Westermann was asking for. This caused the CIA to call Fleitz for an explanation of what exactly Westermann was asking it to do.
"I have to say that I have done a lot of speeches in my time at State for Mr. Bolton, and I have de-classified things at the Agency in a variety of capacities, and this - in my opinion - appeared to be obstruction, an effort to obstruct a legitimate request of the Intelligence Community. Basically, he was trying to find a way not to send it out, when he asked that. It was completely unreasonable, he knew I couldn't provide the source documents, some of these published IC papers were several years old, it was impossible for me to provide them, and I refused."
# Westermann prevaricated about what he sent to CIA when Fleitz asked him about it:
"Mr. Westerman lied when he told us that he had sent the language that Mr. Bolton wanted de-classified to the Agency intact, and only with source citations. That was untrue…
"I sent him an email saying, ‘Christian, WINPAC [CIA's Weapons Intelligence Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center] tells me that you sent the language to WINPAC but with a note attached to it disputing the language and asking that other language be approved instead. Is this true?'
"And his response was, ‘I sent your language intact. I only added sources and citations to help them declassify it. And I told him this didn't seem to be what really happened.'
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# Westermann actually tried to block Bolton's Cuba bio-weapons language request and not send it to the CIA at all.
# Two of Westermann's supervisors: Fingar and Thielmann apologized for Westermann's behavior at the time of his run-in with Bolton.
# A senior colleague of Westermann's told Fleitz at the time that Westermann had "violated State and IC [Intelligence Community] protocol big time."
# "I want to state clearly, right now, that Mr. Bolton never said Mr. Westermann should be fired, or removed from his job. I never heard him say that, I don't know anybody he said that to."
# Fleitz also disputed an allegation that Bolton intimidated "Mr. Smith," a former senior CIA national intelligence officer for Latin America, noting that Bolton never met the anonymous officer.
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Risen is nothing but a political hack!
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Remember this face when the next terrorists kill one of our family and/or friends. Not only will the New York Times be caught in a class action lawsuit, so will Risen, for leaking classified information meant to protect the "AMERICAN PEOPLE"!
March 30 -- Richard Clarke a Must-Read, Raves Risen
National security reporter James Risen likes Richard Clarke's Bush-bashing book a lot: "…if President Bush and his advisers were hoping that their loud pre-emptive attacks on 'Against All Enemies' would make this book go away, they were sadly mistaken. Richard A. Clarke knows too much, and 'Against All Enemies' is too good to be ignored."
National security reporter James Risen likes Richard Clarke's Bush-bashing book a lot: "…if President Bush and his advisers were hoping that their loud pre-emptive attacks on 'Against All Enemies' would make this book go away, they were sadly mistaken. Richard A. Clarke knows too much, and 'Against All Enemies' is too good to be ignored. The explosive details about President Bush's obsession with Iraq in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks captured the headlines in the days after the book's release, but 'Against All Enemies' offers more. It is a rarity among Washington-insider memoirs--it's a thumping good read."
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Correspondence; The Washington Secret Often Isn't
October 23, 2005, Sunday
By DAVID E. SANGER (NYT); Week in Review Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section 4, Page 1, Column 1, 1290 words
THERE are still lots of real secrets in Washington. But the most secretive White House in modern history has learned the hard way -- even while its spokesman reflexively utter the caution, ''We don't talk about intelligence,'' or, ''Sorry, that's classified'' -- that it must reveal a pretty steady...
My colleague James Risen unearthed a story about a ...View free preview
October 23, 2005 - By DAVID E. SANGER (NYT) - Week in Review - News - 1290 words
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Evading Responsibility, Again
August 28, 2005, Sunday
(NYT); Editorial Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section 4, Page 9, Column 1, 424 words
After four and a half years, we have come to expect the Bush administration to refuse to hold anyone of stature accountable for errors, misdeeds or even potential violations of the law. The bungling of the war in Iraq and the abuse of prisoners at military camps both come..
... Scott Shane and James Risen reported in The Times that
LOL. That's ironic.
'The Slimes' and 'The Compost' and all the rest have been doing that constantly for decades and decades.
By the way......... I saw a Leno show about a week ago. Nearly his entire monologue was a long series of "jokes" about how horrible the Bush economy is! It was pathetic, and not at all funny, for humor must arise from at least a grain of truth. It hurts because the audience laughed heartily and seemed to think that all his lame remarks were true.
But in the same way as The Slimes and The Compost, Leno himself nightly serves up large doses of "perception management", and those minds of mush are absorbing it.
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(sorry, H., I had to reply..... I hate when these people accuse their perceived opponents of exactly what they have been doing forever.)
Speaking of "perception management", how's this sample of ugly and boorish 'Late Night' "perception management" on the subject of Dick Cheney's health?
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I’m joking about it but the traffic now is horrible in the city. The city is now like Dick Cheney, every major artery in is blocked. — Letterman
Dick Cheney has warned members of congress that the Patriot Act is set to expire in just ten days. Not only that, but parts of Dick Cheney are set to expire in ten days. — O’Brien
It was snowing in Washington. It was so cold Dick Cheney replaced his pacemaker with a George Foreman Grill. — Leno
It was so cold in Washington, Dick Cheney had to use his heart defibrillator to jump start his car. — Leno
It’s all about saving Iran’s nuclear weapons program.
Very interesting exchange by Risen on Sources
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