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Well trying to link bin Laden to Iraq would be stupid. And remember that the CIA was caught by surprise by the Iranian Revolution and their estimates/assessments of the military and economy of the fSU were wildly wrong, out of a combination of ideological and budgetary/bureaucratic reasons.
But, Woolsey, is no dummy. And, his acting as an attorney for these Iraqis falsely accused of being terrorist symps or operatives, isn't what one expects from former CIA chiefs.
I just did some searches at the ABC News website. Keywords, R. James
Woolsey, no hits on the WTC/Pentagon bombing.
http://search.abcnews.go.com/query.html?ht=0&qp=&qt=R.+James+Woolsey+&qs=&qc
=&pw=100%25&ws=0&la=&qm=0&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=1&oq=&rq=0&si=1
Relevent hits in the past for Iraq and biochem warfare though. Are you sure
you saw Woolsey on ABC?
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000723mag-woolsey.html
("The Radicalization of James Woolsey
He was the head of the C.I.A. He worked on security issues under presidents
from Nixon to Bush. He was the consummate Washington player. Then he took a
pro bono case against the government, and he has never been the same.
By ANDREW COCKBURN [one of Alex'es brothers, author of a book on Iraq and
another on the Red Army]
http://www.infowar.com/iwftp/cloaks/00/24_Jul_2000_to_25_Jul_2000_(_2000-154
).shtml THE RADICALIZATION OF JAMES WOOLSEY. This article from
the July 23 NY Times Magazine is mostly about the case of Dr Aki
Karim, one of a number of Iraqi's who were part of a CIA supported
opposition
force that was rolled up by Saddam Hussein in 1996. Of those brought
to the US in the aftermath of that debacle, Dr Karim and 5 others were
denied political asylum because of secret evidence that they were dangerous
terrorist threats. Woolsey, a lawyer, took on their defense pro bono.
Online NewsHour: Iraqi Detainees -- September 4, 1998
... Online Forum Noam Chomsky and James Woolsey debate US foreign policy.
... case. The
government says Dr. Ali Yassin Mohammed Karim is related to a man the US ...
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/iraq_9-4.html )
>From the book on the Clinton's by Roger Morris, I read that Woolsey was a
campaign volunteer for Eugene McCarthy in '68, so, for a spook, even within
the parameters of Cold War Liberalism, that the McCarthy campaign
represented a partial break from (yes, as Chomsky sez a dissent on the
grounds of the Vietnam War being a "mistake" rather than an imperialist
crime that killed 2.8 million Vietnamese) Woolsey, looks like one able to
see things in a broader context. Albeit, "correcting errors" in the
interests of reintegrating a system full of conflictual dynamics.
Noam Chomsky debates R. James Woolsey. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/march98/intervention_3-12.html Michael Pugliese