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see prior post …
* Powell claims Saddam has anthrax and the means to deliver it
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CBSNews reports (2/16/11) …
- in an interview with The Guardian, Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has called on the CIA and Pentagon to explain why they failed to notify him of unreliability of a key source who claimed knowledge of Saddam Hussein’s bio-weapons capability.
source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/16/501364/main20032561.shtml
LMW COMMENT …
- Colin Powell had every reason to doubt the information pandered by the Bush/Cheney crowd, and he was certainly positioned to find out for himself.
- The best spin on the matter is that Powell did not have the courage and the independence to investigate.
- The worst spin is that he knew the truth – no WMD, no anthrax – and supported the call for war anyway.
- This is the most disgraceful episode of Powell’s otherwise mostly distinguished career and he compounds the problem now by blaming others for his own shortcomings and moral inadequacies.
It is a premise of my novel CASE CLOSED,
fictional as I wrote it but I believe worthy of investigation,
that the Bush/Cheney crowd did not want the anthrax case to be solved
because it was a valuable component in their case of lies
to convince Congress and the American people
to support their “war of choice” in Iraq.
Colin Powell’s disgraceful testimony at the UN
was a major part of making that case.
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CASE CLOSED is a novel about the FBI’s failed investigation
of the 2001 anthrax attacks
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read the opening scene of CASE CLOSED …
* CASE CLOSED – opening scene … the DIA re-investigates the FBI’s failed case
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* buy CASE CLOSED at amazon *
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CASE CLOSED ... what really happened in the 2001 anthrax attacks? 