Pentagon Officer Created Phony Intel on Iraq/al-Qaeda Link By Matt Renner – t r u t h o u t | Report – Friday 06 April 2007 Newly released documents confirm that a Pentagon unit knowingly cooked up intelligence claiming a direct link between Iraq and al-Qaeda in order to win support for a preemptive…
By Paul Kane, The Washington Post The Justice Department is refusing to release hundreds of pages of additional documents related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, setting up a fresh clash with Capitol Hill in a controversy that continues to threaten Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s hold on his position. The Senate Judiciary Committee,…
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides “all confirmed” that Hussein’s regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a declassified Defense Department report released yesterday. The declassified version of the report, by acting Inspector General…
therawstory Josh Catone Published: Thursday April 5, 2007 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today rebuked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for not responding in a timely manner to requests made three months ago for written answers to questions. (Original Article)
