[Peace] Fwd: KEY - Pentagon Report on Defense Doug Feith Intelligence Operation

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> From: "Harry C Blaney III" <hcblaney at mindspring.com>
> Date: April 6, 2007 9:45:34 PM CDT
> To: <hcblaney at ciponline.org>
> Subject: Fw: KEY - Pentagon Report on Defense Doug Feith  
> Intelligence Operation
>
> FYI, Harry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:30 PM
> Subject: KEY - Pentagon Report on Defense Doug Feith Intelligence  
> Operation
>
>
> Subject: Re: Pentagon Report Defense Doug Feith Intelligence  
> Operation (Smith)
>
> Re the posted item below:
>
> the urls within the text don't work. Access via the url at top of  
> text and
> then via links within Levin's letter.
>
>
>
> > http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2007/04/levin040507.html> Levin Releases
> > Newly Declassified Pentagon Inspector General Report on Intelligence
> > Assessment Activities of the Office of Under Secretary of Defense  
> Doug
> > Feith
> >
> > WASHINGTON -- Sen. Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services
> > Committee, today released the newly declassified
> > <http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/ig020907-decl.pdf>report [PDF]  
> of the
> > Department of Defense Inspector General on its "Review of the Pre- 
> Iraqi
> > War Activities of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for
> > Policy." The report was declassified at Levin's request.
> >
> > In releasing the report, Levin said: "It is important for the  
> public to
> > see why the Pentagon's Inspector General concluded that Secretary
> > Feith's office 'developed, produced and then disseminated  
> alternative
> > intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaeda relationship,'  
> which
> > included 'conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus  
> of the
> > Intelligence Community,' and why the Inspector General concluded  
> that
> > these actions were 'inappropriate.' Until today, those details were
> > classified and outside the public's view."
> >
> > The Feith office alternative intelligence assessments concluded that
> > Iraq and al Qaeda were cooperating and had a "mature, symbiotic"
> > relationship, a view that was not supported by the available
> > intelligence, and was contrary to the consensus view of the  
> Intelligence
> > Community. These alternative assessments were used by the  
> Administration
> > to support its public arguments in its case for war. As the DOD IG
> > report confirms, the Intelligence Community never found an  
> operational
> > relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda; the report specifically  
> states
> > that,"the CIA and DIA disavowed any 'mature, symbiotic' relationship
> > between Iraq and al-Qaida."
> >
> > Senator Levin also released today the declassified briefing
> > < http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2007/04/feithslides.pdf>slides  
> [PDF] used
> > by Secretary Feith's office in its presentation to senior White  
> House
> > officials, "Assessing the Relationship Between Iraq and al  
> Qaida," which
> > concluded incorrectly that "Intelligence indicates cooperation in  
> all
> > categories; mature, symbiotic relationship," and also asserted
> > incorrectly that an alleged meeting in April 2001 in Prague  
> between an
> > Iraqi intelligence officer and lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta  
> was a
> > "known" contact.
> >
> > "The very title of the Feith briefing slides contradicts his  
> claim on
> > February 16 that "we didn't do intelligence assessments," as well  
> as his
> > claim on February 14 that the briefing was simply "a critique of the
> > CIA's work on the Iraq-al-Qaeda relationship" and no more than an  
> effort
> > to "raise questions about CIA work," said Levin. The briefing slides
> > were an important element in the Inspector General's inquiry and its
> > conclusions.
> >
> > The declassified Inspector General report can be found
> > < http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/ig020907-decl.pdf>here. [PDF]
> >
> > The declassified briefing slides can be found
> > <http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2007/04/feithslides.pdf >here. [PDF]
>
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