The CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, has finally got approval to publish his book, which will hit the streets on December 27, 2005. The CIA has sat on the book for more than a year and tried to stop its publication. Although the book is not intended as a criticism of President Bush, it will land another body blow to the beleaguered Bush Presidency. Bernsten's key point in the book is his testimony that he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Al Qaeda and Taliban members. According to NEWSWEEK, "Berntsen says he had definitive intelligence that bin Laden was holed up at Tora Bora--intelligence operatives had tracked him--and could have been caught. He was there."This contradicts the statements of General Tommy Franks, and leads to speculation that he got the Medal of Freedom for his silence on the decision to let bin Laden escape Tora Bora because a captured bin Laden would not have propelled public opinion and Congress to approve the preemptive attack on Iraq.
The delay by the CIA to permit publishing the book before the Presidential Election in November 2004 adds weight to the suspicion, as does the fact that CIA Director Tenet got the Medal of Freedom for his silence on the cooked Intelligence he was feeding to the White House.
There is no purpose or policy out of the Bush White House, just Politics and Propaganda. The period of Republican domination of the Federal Government is going to be seen by historians as an extremely dark period in American History, certainly on a moral level with slavery.
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