ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Ex-CIA analyst: Forged 'yellowcake' memo 'leads right back to' Cheney

By David Edwards
April 30, 2007 | Raw Story

A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney.

Appearing on MSNBC's Tucker Carlson show, Ray McGovern who served in the CIA for twenty-seven years, said, "the [forged] memo leads right back to the doorstep of the Vice President of the United States."

According to McGovern, former CIA Director George Tenet told his "coterie of malleable managers" at the CIA to create a National Intelligence Estimate "to the terms of reference of Dick Cheney's speech of August 26, 2002, where Dick Cheney said for the first time Saddam Hussein could have a nuclear weapon in a year, he's got all kinds of chemical, he's got all kinds of biological weapons."

McGovern, who at one time chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief, also claimed to have evidence that the memo leads back to Cheney but he would say what it was, except that the names of the people involved were "in the public domain."

In an op-ed posted at Buzzflash, McGovern argues, "If any good can come out of the intelligence/policy debacle regarding Iraq, it would be the clear lesson that intelligence crafted to dovetail with the predilections of policymakers can bring disaster. The role that Tenet, McLaughlin, and their small coterie of malleable managers played as willing accomplices in the corruption of intelligence has made a mockery of the verse chiseled into the marble at the entrance to CIA headquarters: 'You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.'"

McGovern also calls Tenet a "pathetic figure" who is trying to "justify himself for unjustifiable activity." Tenet, in his new book, claims that the Bush administration distorted his use of the term "slam dunk" in reference to intelligence that ultimately led to the Iraq war (RAW STORY's coverage is here).

The following video is from MSNBC's Tucker.

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Editor's comment: After a long hiatus, I am back. Though it may not be regular, I will endeavor to keep my readers up on all of the under-reported news and corruption which can be uncovered.

In this piece from Raw Story, we find that Ray McGovern is still stirring the pot to see what floats to the top. This is an activity which we, here, are closely familiar with and in which we find great satisfaction when we make just the right people squirm in their chairs. It is a great feeling to watch when that happens, and McGovern certainly does that as he exposes former DCI George Tenet as a fraud who is complicit in setting up the phony intelligence and the greatest war criminal and liar, Dick Cheney.

Ray McGovern lays the blame right at the feet of the neocons, of whom Cheney is a prime player, for the intelligence fraud which revolves around the fraudulent yellowcake documents.

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