an interesting resource

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: FYI, perhaps an interesting resource for IP'ers?
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:44:06 -0800
From: Steven Hertzberg <stevenstevensteven () gmail com>
To: dave () farber net


Dave,

I've recently learned of an interesting resource that may be of interest to
other IP'ers:  Dr. Karen Kwiatkowski, a retired USAF Lt Col who spent her
final assignment as a political-military affairs officer in the Office of
the Secretary of Defense (http://www.militaryweek.com/kwiatkowski.shtml).
Basically, Karen worked alongside the Office of Special Plans (OSP, which
was originally created by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz to review raw information collected by the official
U.S. intelligence agencies for connections between Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein and al-Qaeda.  In this capacity, she seems to have had unusual
insight into the claims that Rumsfeld et al exaggerated and manipulated
intelligence about Iraq before passing it along to the White House.

Here are a few links of interest:

Career Officer Does Eye-Opening Stint Inside Pentagon
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0805-08.htm

"What I saw was aberrant, pervasive and contrary to good order and
discipline. If one is seeking the answers to why peculiar bits of
``intelligence'' found sanctity in a presidential speech, or why the
post-Hussein occupation has been distinguished by confusion and false steps,
one need look no further than the process inside the Office of the Secretary
of Defense."


Why We Fight, review of Director Eugene Jarecki film
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski142.html


Karen Kwiatkowski: Archives
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski-arch.html


I hope that this is not a duplicate of earlier discussions, as I had not
seen her name previously. Also, I have not read enough of her work to form a
hard opinion, so IP'ers are on their own - I offer up this information on
Dr. Kwiatkowski simply as an FYI.


________________________________
Steven Hertzberg
http://www.hertzberg.org


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