By DOUGLAS JEHL

A high Qaeda official in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10887.htm

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/110505.html


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http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3595/


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Frank Rich writes, it would be a compelling story," Patrick Fitzgerald said of the narrative Scooter Libby used to allegedly mislead investigators in the Valerie Wilson leak case, "if only it were true."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110605Z.shtml



Frank Rich: The Mysterious Death of Pat Tillman:

This administration just loves to beguile us with a rollicking good story, truth be damned. The propagandistic fable exposed by the leak case - the apocalyptic imminence of Saddam's mushroom clouds - was only the first of its genre. Given that potboiler's huge success at selling the war, its authors couldn't resist providing sequels once we were in Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10895.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9939709/

The FBI's Secret Scrutiny
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501366.html


© Virginia Metze

Maureen Dowd details the makings of "good intelligence" from the Cheney 'cabal' to Michael Brown's FEMA fashions.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505E.shtml

Rep. Robert W. Ney notified Congress yesterday that he had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury examining the Lobbying Activities of Jack Abramoff, making the Ohio Republican the first lawmaker to receive such a demand in the expanding influence-peddling investigation.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505B.shtml

Colin Powell's former Chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, stated bluntly that it was Vice President Dick Cheney's office which triggered abuse of Iraqi prisoners with word that filtered down to soldiers in the field that interrogations were not providing needed intelligence. Now, Cheney goes one step further, by appealing to Republican senators this week to allow CIA exemptions to a proposed ban on the torture of terror suspects in US custody.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505A.shtml

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Explosive Interview:

Colin Powell's Former Chief of Staff Col. Wilkerson on Prewar Intel, Murder and Torture

By Democracy Now!

How a White House "Cabal" Hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy
Audio and Transcript.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11111.htm

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3593/


Informant: jensenmk

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http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2005/11/inside_us_war_p.html#more


Informant: Kev Hall