[kj] interview with a CIA 'vampire'

[sade1]

--- Jel <jelbod@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Words missed out? Are these real
> conversations and where ? How? did you/people come across them.

***This is the FULL interview as posted on Truth Out:
  From Truth Out --- http://truthout.org/docs_03/062603B.shtml
 Interview: 27-Year CIA Veteran by Will Pitt
             t r u t h o u t | Interview
             Thursday 26 June 2003

Saul

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> From: sade1 <saulomar1@yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [kj] interview with a CIA 'vampire'
> 
> 
> > Here's ONE take - - -
> >
> > --- Jel <jelbod@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > >  I honestly dont believe that the American government were aware of a
> total information target,
> > > nobody could let that happen with all those lives to be lost.
> Information
> > > about a 'possible' attack yes, but come on, this is the U.S of A
> >
> >  From Truth Out --- http://truthout.org/docs_03/062603B.shtml
> > Interview: 27-Year CIA Veteran by Will Pitt
> >             t r u t h o u t | Interview
> >             Thursday 26 June 2003
> > (highlights)
> > "[Will] PITT:      There was the August 6 2001 briefing...
> >  [Ray] McGovern**: On August 6[2001], the title of the briefing was, "Bin
> Laden Determined to
> > Strike in the US," and that briefing had the word "Hijacking" in it.
> That's all I know about it,
> > but that's quite enough. In September, Bush had to make a decision. Is it
> feasible to let go of
> > Tenet, whose agency flubbed the dub on this one? And the answer was no,
> because Tenet knows too
> > much about what Bush knew, and Bush didn't know what to do about it.
> That's the bottom line .
> > Bush was well-briefed.[OK, he's a briefs guy] .he was told all these
> things. He didn't even have
> > the presence of mind to convene his National Security Council and say, "OK
> guys,.what are we going
> > to do about it?" He just went off to chop wood."
> >
> > "...George Bush had...to keep George Tenet on as [CIA] Director, because
> George Tenet had warned
> > Bush repeatedly, for months and months before September 11, that something
> very bad was about to
> > happen."
> >
> > **Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, serving seven Presidents.
> He is on the Steering
> > Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. He is co-director
> of the Servant
> > Leadership School, an outreach ministry in the inner city of Washington.
> >
> > "...if we're going to have this war, let's do the al Qaeda-Iraq
> connection. That's the traumatic
> > one. 9/11 is still a traumatic thing for most Americans. Let's do that."
> >
> > General Wesley Clark.mentioned that he was called at his home by the White
> House on September 11
> > and told to make the connection between those terrorist attacks and
> Saddam.on the day of the
> > attacks, told to say that this was state-sponsored terrorism and there
> must be a connection. . he
> > said "Where's the evidence?"  there was no evidence, [so] he didn't say
> what they wanted him to.
> >
> >  PITT: So what we have, essentially, is in the run-up to the war the
> Secretary of State of the
> > United States of America was cramming for a major exam like a freshman in
> high school.
> >   McG: Yes
> > Rice and Cheney convening in CIA headquarters to sit around a table and
> help with the
> > analysis.give me a break!  That's antithetical to the whole ethic of
> analysis.
> >
> > It's demonstrable that senior officials of this government, including the
> Vice President, knew
> > that it was a forgery in March of last year. It was used anyway to deceive
> our Congressmen and
> > Senators into voting for an unprovoked war. .We know he was told in early
> March of last year that
> > the documents were forgeries.
> >
> > http://truthout.org/docs_03/062603B.shtml
> >
> > --- Jel <jelbod@btinternet.com> wrote:
> > >
> >  I honestly dont believe
> > > that the American government were aware of a  total information target,
> > > nobody could let that happen with all those lives to be lost.
> Information
> > > about a 'possible' attack yes, but come on, this is the U.S of A
> >
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