Juan Cole: Criminal for Bush to be quoting this "information"

[kpete]

Juan Cole commenting on 11/6 article by: Douglas Jehl of the NYT

"There was never any reason to believe al-Libi, whether the DIA found him credible or not. That they thought he was a liar, in addition to the lack of corroborating evidence for what he was saying, made it criminal for Bush to be quoting this "information" in his speeches."

"Moreover, other high-level al-Qaeda operatives such as Khalid Shaykh Muhammad and Abu Zubaydah, who were far more important and informed than Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, were telling the same interrogators that Bin Laden had forbidden al-Qaeda operatives from cooperating with the secular Arab nationalist, Saddam Hussein. Their credible information, which tracked with the reality visible in arrests and the money trail, was suppressed by Bush and Cheney, whereas they trumpeted al-Libi's tall tales to the US public in order to build their case for an Iraq War"

http://www.juancole.com/

[Toots]

1. Well Duhhhhh..

:shrug: