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<b style="font-size:10pt">Sent:</b><font
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<span style="font-size:22px"><b>Subject:</b>
How the NSA Pushed Iraq Invasion</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Charles
Savage in the <em><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">New
York Times</span></em> <a
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href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.nytimes.com_2016_05_17_us_politics_intercept-2Ddiscloses-2Darchive-2Dof-2Dinternal-2Dnsa-2Dnewsletters.html-3Fref-3Dtodayspaper-26-5Fr-3D0&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=wbZZ_3FvVjt9RIYncSBsW_u9cFYdkeLyLZrc9J5OsIQ&e="
target="_blank">writes Tuesday</a>: "On
Monday, the news website The Intercept said
it would publish the entire archive of the
[National Security Agency’s Top Secret
internal] newsletter and began by posting
more than 150 articles from 2003.... For
example, one article described the American
and British ambassadors to the United
Nations expressing thanks to the agency for
providing what the latter called 'insights
into the nuances of internal divisions among
the five permanent members of the U.N.
Security Council' during the diplomatic
negotiations ahead of the Iraq War."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
Intercept on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__theintercept.com_snowden-2Dsidtoday_2829994-2Da-2Dperspective-2Don-2Dthe-2Dnsa-2Dusun-2Dpartnership_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=b4z8jJFR55vzB6ElTW_QWnZOyixSGmjPoarSkjpwbng&e="
target="_blank">Monday in one of their
postings stated</a> the NSA's intelligence
"during the wind-up to the Iraq War 'played
a critical role' in the adoption of U.N.
Security Council resolutions. The work with
that customer was a resounding success." The
relevant document quotes John Negroponte,
then the U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations: "I can't imagine better
intelligence support for a diplomatic
mission."</span></p>
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HUSSEINI, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sam@accuracy.org"
target="_blank">sam@accuracy.org</a>, <a
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href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_samhusseini&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=25WnblOAuNRoZSyGGuP6W65kF-BUMfIavkRcLdKEiuQ&e="
target="_blank">@samhusseini</a></span></p>
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Communications director of the Institute
for Public Accuracy, Husseini wrote the
piece "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__consortiumnews.com_2014_11_19_katharine-2Dguns-2Drisky-2Dtruth-2Dtelling&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=R40ibS9UryX46Lz5DNcUWO5Z2vIWPjfgDXZ4ZDFYJWs&e="
target="_blank">Katharine Gun’s Risky
Truth-telling</a>" about a British
official who crucially leaked evidence of
NSA spying against UN officials during the
buildup to the Iraq invasion. </span></p>
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Husseini said today: "The U.S. government,
through the NSA, was spying -- in violation
of international law -- on other UN Security
Council members in order to better coerce
them to back the invasion of Iraq. We know
this because Katharine Gun leaked a short
300-word NSA memo on this shortly before the
invasion. She worked at the time at GCHQ,
the British equivalent of the NSA. </span></p>
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"This memo was reported by <em><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
Observer</span></em> in Britain and then
around the world -- but there was hardly a
peep in the U.S. media, including the <em><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Times</span></em>.
Dan Ellsberg has called it the most
important leak of all time. This story
debunked key lies about the Iraq invasion in
real time. It highlighted how the U.S.
government was not -- as President George W.
Bush was claiming at the time -- trying to
find a way to avoid war. Rather, it
documented that the U.S. government was
going to incredible lengths to coerce other
states to give it diplomatic cover for the
desired invasion. </span></p>
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"And this has critical importance for
today. This shows the NSA is not working
tirelessly, as officialdom would have us
believe, to protect the U.S. public. It is
facilitating policies that enable horrific
wars, destabilize countries and dramatically
increase insecurity. </span></p>
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"While the <em><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Times</span></em> treats
what happened in 2003 rather gingerly, The
Intercept is incorrect in claiming that
there were Security Council 'resolutions'
during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq.
There was only one -- in good measure
because Katharine Gun's whistleblowing made
it difficult for other members of the
Security Council to go along with another
resolution. This made a liar out of
Negroponte, who had stated when the first
resolution [1441] was adopted: 'There’s no
"automaticity" and this is a two-stage
process' -- that is, the U.S. would come
back to the Security Council for a second
resolution before invading Iraq."</span></p>
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Husseini's piece states: "When the British
reporters writing the story called the
author of the memo, Frank Koza, a top
official at the NSA, they were put through
to his office. When they shared the nature
of their phone call, they were told by an
assistant they had 'the wrong number.' The
reporters noted: 'On protesting that the
assistant had just said this was Koza’s
extension, the assistant repeated that it
was an erroneous extension, and hung up.'</span></p>
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"The story was ignored by the U.S. media,
though we at the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.accuracy.org_1104-2Dthe-2Dkatharine-2Dgun-2Dcase_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=o-zQciODbq_1WM05r6bkljddjC46fQ04hTHLb5ZO7t8&e="
target="_blank">Institute for Public
Accuracy put out a string of news releases
about it</a>. Gun has commented that
Martin Bright, one of the reporters who
broke the story for the British <em><span
style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Observer</span></em>,
had been booked on several U.S. TV networks
just after the story was published but they
had all quickly cancelled. [See <a
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href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DZ7GVWOMhrNk&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=WcUkizCfJnhS0_kUpDp59n45xRkavLjT5e2CbCoAQ8E&e="
target="_blank">video</a> of an interview
with Gun and Larry Wilkerson, former chief
of staff for Colin Powell, on German TV.]</span></p>
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"However, the story did cause headlines
around the world -- especially in the
countries on the Security Council that the
memo listed as targets of the surveillance.
Through whatever combination of authentic
anger or embarrassment at their subservience
to the U.S. government being exposed, most
of these governments apparently peeled away
from the U.S., and no second UN resolution
was sought by the war planners.</span></p>
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"Rather, George W. Bush started the Iraq
war with unilateral demands that Saddam
Hussein and his family leave Iraq (and then
indicated that the invasion would commence <a
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href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__fair.org_press-2Drelease_will-2Dthe-2Dwar-2Dbegin-2Dwith-2Da-2Dbig-2Dlie_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=_iuwmBDMEAIAz6k1h--JVoji6x5mlDiImSbbdIp2zWg&m=y2MRZb0YT4uuQ44I42opTP2x1Gsi9mjd3CYGbLsLgYQ&s=uvhIgKsWWmrtRR9j2cywp7FrZZiij8vhesfelTuSKXs&e="
target="_blank">in any case</a>.)"</span><br>
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<span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For
more information, contact at the Institute
for Public Accuracy:</span><br>
<span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sam
Husseini, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:%28202%29%20347-0020"
target="_blank">(202) 347-0020</a>; David
Zupan,<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="tel:%28541%29%20484-9167"
target="_blank">(541) 484-9167</a></span><br>
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17, 2016</span><br>
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