Another Bush War Crime or Treason.
Ron Suskind provides evidence that Bush created a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war.
Ron Suskind gives details of then CIA Director Tenet giving orders to the Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations, Rob Richer. Richer says he was ordered to create a deception.
John Maquire, who oversaw the CIA's Iraq Operations Group also confirms the fake letter.
My Way News - White House denies fake Iraq-al-Qaida link letter
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and the CIA on Tuesday adamantly denied a report that the Bush administration concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war.
The allegation was raised by Washington-based journalist Ron Suskind in a new book, "The Way of the World," published Tuesday. The letter supposedly was written by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, director of Iraqi intelligence under Saddam Hussein.
"The White House had concocted a fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001," Suskind wrote. "It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq thus showing, finally, that there was an operational link between Saddam and al-Qaida, something the vice president's office had been pressing CIA to prove since 9/11 as a justification to invade Iraq. There is no link."
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In his book, Suskind writes that Tenet gave Rob Richer, the CIA's former head of the Near East division and deputy director of clandestine operations, the fake letter during a fall 2003 meeting. Suskind quotes Richer as saying, "George said something like, 'Well, Marine, I've got a job for you, though you may not like it.'"
Suskind wrote that "Richer remembers looking down at the creamy White House stationery on which the assignment was written." He quotes Richer as saying, "This was creating a deception."
Suskind also quotes John Maquire, who oversaw the CIA's Iraq Operations Group, about the alleged fake letter. "When it was discussed with me, I just thought it was incredible, a box-checking of all outstanding issues in one letter, from one guy," Suskind quotes Maquire as saying.
Richer and Maquire, who both left the CIA in recent years, could not be reached Tuesday for comment about the book.
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Bush and CIA faked Iraq-AlQaida letter
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