In This Weeks Episode, We Learn More About
What the Dear Leader Knew Before the War

It is becoming increasingly clear that the cabal, including Bushie, knew in 2002 that the main source for Iraq intel in the leadup to the war was a serial fabricator. It's in today's NYT, and Raw Story, Kos, and countless other sources reported on that piece yesterday:
The New York Times starts to answer the question, with reporter Doug Jehl disclosing the contents of a newly declassified memo apparently passed to him by Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
It shows that an al-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 this Defense Intelligence Agency document from February 2002.
It declared that it was probable that the prisoner, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, "was intentionally misleading the debriefers" in making claims about Iraqi support for al-Qaeda's work with illicit weapons, Jehl reports.
"The document provides the earliest and strongest indication of doubts voiced by American intelligence agencies about Mr. Libi's credibility," Jehl writes. "Without mentioning him by name, President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, and other administration officials repeatedly cited Mr. Libi's information as `credible' evidence that Iraq was training Al Qaeda members in the use of explosives and illicit weapons.
So Bush knew. It also appears he knew more than has been revealed about Plamegate and Rove's role. Add that to the fact that the Dear [Vice] Leader, whose poll numbers are around 19% and whose aide Scooter was indicted in Plamegate, continues to insist on being the official who determines the level of torture (lots) that so endears us to the Islamic world and replaced Scooter with an aid who authored torture memos and lobbied heavily in favor of torture.
And add to that the revelation that "ghost detainees" are taken to Europe to be tortured and yesterday's report on Brownie-of-the-Week Kenneth Tomlinson's "ghost employees" at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the depth and sweep of the Dear Leader's criminal enterprise can be seen.
It's time. Your senators must know that they must shut down the Senate a la Harry Reid - Bush, currently throwing a hissy fit because Scalito won't get a hearing until January, must be denied everything until he and the rest of his crooked henchmen confess and resign as appropriate. Enough is enough. Here are all the Senate email addresses - go git 'em.
firedoglake has more here.
tags: george bush dick cheney david addington iraq war on terror impeach bush abu ghraib guantanamo kenneth tomlinson ghost detainees
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