| Date: | Wednesday July 16, @04:39PM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | News |
| from the Guardian dept. | |
The Guardian pushed an insider story from almost 20 months ago, which still didn't reach "Joe Six Pack" yet
Guardian " Special investigation" -Thursday July 17, 2003
Photo: Richard Perle (PNAC), one of the "Clean Break" authors
Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force
"...According to former Bush officials, all defence and intelligence sources, senior members of the administration created a shadow agency of Pentagon analysts staffed mainly by ideological amateurs to compete with the CIA and its military counterpart, the Defence Intelligence Agency...
The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.
In 1996, he and Richard Perle - now an influential Pentagon figure - served as advisers to the then Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu. In a policy paper they wrote, entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, the two advisers said that Saddam would have to be destroyed, and Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran would have to be overthrown or destabilised, for Israel to be truly safe.
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