Fall of the House of Bush by Craig Unger

Author:Craig Unger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scribner

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I. Mylroie was widely discredited by terrorism analysts such as CNN’s Peter Bergen, who called her a “crackpot” for arguing that Saddam was behind not just the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, “but also every anti-American terrorist incident of the past decade, from the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to the leveling of the federal building in Oklahoma City to September 11 itself.” Likewise, Daniel Benjamin, a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, notes that “Mylroie’s work has been carefully investigated by the CIA and the FBI. . . . The most knowledgeable analysts and investigators at the CIA and at the FBI believe that their work conclusively disproves Mylroie’s claims.”

In a piece on Mylroie in the Washington Monthly, Bergen noted that her book, Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War Against America, which was published by AEI in 2000, “makes it clear that Mylroie and the neocon hawks worked hand in glove to push her theory that Iraq was behind the ’93 Trade Center bombing. Its acknowledgements fulsomely thanked John Bolton and the staff of AEI for their assistance, while Richard Perle glowingly blurbed the book as ‘splendid and wholly convincing.’ Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, now Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, is thanked for his ‘generous and timely assistance.’ And it appears that Paul Wolfowitz himself was instrumental in the genesis of Study of Revenge.”

Bergen pointed out that “the most comprehensive criminal investigation in history—involving chasing down 500,000 leads and interviewing 175,000 people—has turned up no evidence of Iraq’s involvement” in 9/11, nor had the occupation of the country by a large American army turned up any such link. Mylroie was also the coauthor of Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf with Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who touted false information about Saddam’s WMD program during the run-up to war.

II. In a phone call to CNN, Falwell later apologized for his statements and said only the terrorists should be blamed for the attacks. But he added that the ACLU and other groups “have attempted to secularize America, have removed our nation from its relationship with Christ on which it was founded. . . . I therefore believe that that created an environment which possibly has caused God to lift the veil of protection which has allowed no one to attack America on our soil since 1812.”

III. According to the website, a reading of 145 means “Fasten your seat belts.”

IV. Perhaps as much as any single piece of journalism, the Gellman-Becker series illustrated the problems of informing the American people about what is really going on in their government today. Even though the series was hailed on the Internet in the liberal blogosphere and featured prominently in the Washington Post, the essential but arcane details behind Cheney’s bureaucratic machinations were largely ignored by the mainstream press.

V. When Flanigan left his job in late 2002 to become general counsel at Tyco, one of his first hires was lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

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