[lbo-talk] Lehman Brothers, Neocons

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Thu Mar 25 05:43:12 PST 2004


http://www.juancole.com/2004_03_01_juancole_archive.html#108019969815608229

John Lehman, by the way, is the one with credibility problems. He

tried to blame the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 at Aden on a

failure of the CIA and the State Department, and alleged that an

anti-US and anti-Israel state was behind it (read: Iraq).

https://mail.lsit.ucsb.edu/pipermail/gordon-newspost/2000-October/001648.html

In fact, the

USS Cole bombing was a purely al-Qaeda affair in which Iraq was in no

way involved. And, as Clarke explains, it happened in part because the

Navy decided to start refueling at Aden without passing the plan by

any of the civilian counter-terrorism officials, including himself.

Adm. Lehman's brother Chris served in Douglas Feith's Office of Special

Programs, which cherry-picked intelligence so as to manufacture huge

Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs and extensive collaboration

with al-Qaeda, both of them fantasies.

URL: http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/feith/feith.php

Lehmann and his brother Chris have been wrong all along the way in

downplaying al-Qaeda and foregrounding Saddam. That is why he has to

now smear Clarke, who has simply told it like it was.



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