It just keeps getting better...
"The article, by Seymour M. Hersh, reports that the administration proceeded with the covert plan over the Congressional objections. Several senior Bush administration officials disputed that,"
"The article cites unidentified former military and intelligence officials who said the administration went ahead with covert election activities in Iraq that "were conducted by retired C.I.A. officers and other non- government personnel, and used funds that were not necessarily appropriated by Congress." But it does not provide details and says, "the methods and the scope of the covert effort have been hard to discern."
I wonder how many "opposition party" candidates were "coverted" or "influenced"? [That means dead]
This just reinforces my belief that the spook factory is running more than a few of the suicide bombing operations. Especially the ones that exclusively target civilians when there are no soldiers present.
The ones that get tagged "sectarian violence"
July 17, 2005
Plan Called for Covert Aid in Iraq Vote
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/politics/17elect.html?pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON, July 16 - In the months before the Iraqi elections in January, President Bush approved a plan to provide covert support to certain Iraqi candidates and political parties, but rescinded the proposal because of Congressional opposition, current and former government officials said Saturday.
In a statement issued in response to questions about a report in the next issue of The New Yorker, Frederick Jones, the spokesman for the National Security Council, said that "in the final analysis, the president determined and the United States government adopted a policy that we would not try - and did not try - to influence the outcome of the Iraqi election by covertly helping individual candidates for office."
The statement appeared to leave open the question of whether any covert help was provided to parties favored by Washington, an issue about which the White House declined to elaborate. <...>