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Suskind's book
which I read last week is convincing if not necessarily well written, a tangential subject which I won't discuss here.
Apart from the outrageous Habbush/phony document story which is being covered under
CIA:Book's Iraq Forgery Charges are "Offensive"
there's another interesting anecdote re Curveball.As is now well known, much of the information the Administration used in what Andrew Card referred to as the marketing campaign for the War, was derived from this questionable source. And we've been told that the CIA had wished to question him at the time but access was denied by the German Government for whom he was spying.
But the reaon the German Government denied the CIA access was , writes Suskind, that Joe Wippl ,the CIA's station chief in Germany, advised them not to do what his bosses were asking them to do , to let Washington question Curveball.
Subsequently CIA attempted to dismiss Wippl and a funny thing happened. Cheney's office recommended that instead Wippl be given the job of CIA liason to Congress- a job for which he was unqualified. After some time he was removed from the job and when finally removed was given a sinecure running a one man intelligence "institute"
at Boston University.
Comments (7)
In the last sentence the second "removed"
should be "fired".
August 23, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gee, that is funny.
I guess this Cheney guy is a lot nicer than people give him credit for. Here he went out of his way to help this low-level CIA employee. That's what I call being a mensch.
August 23, 2008 10:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hellova guy. W's vp search team did a grand job.
August 23, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
A friend who was impressed with the book referred me to a href="http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=13273">Gareth Porter's August 9 piece "How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq"
August 24, 2008 12:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Trying again with link to the Gareth Porter piece:
Porter piece on Suskind book
August 24, 2008 12:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm still waiting for somebody to point out that McCain was trotted out on Letterman to dessiminate false prophaganda about the source of the anthrax being "from Iraq," which was later completely debunked. I want to know whose orders was he following and did he know the information was false or was he being used as the tool that he truly is.
August 24, 2008 12:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Very interesting? Either he didn't know anything , and nevertheless made this inflammatory charge. Or he was lying. Either a fool or a knave to use a British expression.
August 24, 2008 6:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
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