Once Again, Forgeries?
The news that the CIA may have forged a letter alleging ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq reminds me that OVP–particularly Scooter Libby–was the one behind many of the Iraq-Al Qaeda claims.
Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emptywheel at her eponymous blog, publishes at outlets including Vice, Motherboard, the Nation, the Atlantic, Al Jazeera, and appears frequently on television and radio. She is the author of Anatomy of Deceit, a primer on the CIA leak investigation, and liveblogged the Scooter Libby trial.
Marcy has a PhD from the University of Michigan, where she researched the “feuilleton,” a short conversational newspaper form that has proven important in times of heightened censorship. Before and after her time in academics, Marcy provided documentation consulting for corporations in the auto, tech, and energy industries. She lives with her spouse in Grand Rapids, MI.
The news that the CIA may have forged a letter alleging ties between Al Qaeda and Iraq reminds me that OVP–particularly Scooter Libby–was the one behind many of the Iraq-Al Qaeda claims.
The media is finally beginning to question the story about Bruce Ivins (though Glenn is still schooling them). But here’s a question I see no one asking, much less answering. The LAT reported that attention began to focus on Ivins in “late 2006” only after FBI Director Mueller changed the leadership team on the investigation.
Federal investigators moved away from Hatfill — for years the only publicly identified “person of interest” —
Michael Isikoff took a whole bunch of contradictions in Scooter Libby’s cover story and just dismissed them as irrelevant based on the explanation offered by one anonymous source.
The anonymous source? Terry O’Donnell, Dick Cheney’s own lawyer.
Jane Mayer’s Dark Side corroborates something I’ve been arguing. The CIA IG’s report on torture–which concluded that CIA’s interrogation methods were cruel and inhumane–was one of the things that made the CIA panic and destroy the torture tapes.
There were at least two points where, by virtue of being a top expert on anthrax, Bruce Ivins may have been able to monitor and perhaps influence the anthrax investigation.
The likely sources for the earliest stories claiming Iraq had a role in the anthrax attack are pretty telling.
Like Pat Leahy did last night, John Conyers takes a victory lap after yesterday’s ruling that Miers and Bolten don’t have absolute immunity.
Feingold and Whitehouse are finally trying to end the process of Pixie Dusting.
Dick Cheney has always claimed he could have declassified Plame’s identity. But at the same time he was making such claims, Harriet Miers, as White House Counsel, disagreed with that claim.
As someone who received her PhD in Comparative Literature just months before Bush was selected and who has read maybe ten fictional books since I stopped teaching fiction, I feel obliged to point to–and comment on–Chris Bowers’ post on “The Rise of the Non-Fictional Aesthetic.”
This decade seems to have brought on a broad shift in the leftist aesthetic in America.