The authors, Peter Eisner and Knut Royce, will be guest blogging today and this week at TPM's Table for One. This should be quite fascinating.
I have previously discussed this book and its findings here:
- New story in WaPo re: Niger Forgeries
4/3/07 and - Why no investigation of Niger Forgeries by the FBI?
5/1/07
This book, "The Italian Letter", is also my source for the suspicions I voiced in my article Run! Hide! Sky is Falling! Iranians training Terrorists! Run! Run! Hide!! Kill Someone!! that the NeoCon Michael Ledeen was involved in the creation and/or transmission of the Niger forgeries.
This is what they have posted
- Forget the Truth
by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce - June 11, 2007
WMD were not part of the reason why the Bush administration decided to invade Iraq. That decision was made for other reasons, but those other reasons were not reasons that the White House Iraq Group felt could be used as the anchor for the Public Relations effort needed to "sell" going to war. The pre-war talk of Iraqi doomsday weapons were nothing more than a killer sales pitch to sell the single most disastrous foreign policy decision ever made by any American administration. There was no acceptable rational reason to invade Iraq, so the Bush administration had to gin up a really scary threat - one that did not exist. - The Bush administration should have known.
by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce - June 12, 2007
The Bush administration recognizes now that many mistakes were made in the decision to go to war in Iraq, but they blame those mistakes on "bad" Intelligence they were given, not on their own incompetence. Eisner and Royce make the point that what the Bush administration needed to know was given to them, but that they intentionally buried or ignored it. They knew they were spouting bad Intelligence to justify the disastrous war they started. - Condi: Casting Assertions
by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce - June 13, 2007
Eisner and Royce admit surprise that Tenet, in his book, clearly describes that Condi Rice did not understand how to read an Intelligence assessment and could not properly interpret what the Intelligence community was trying to tell her. - Our Sources, On The Record
by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce - June 14, 2007
Eisner and Royce get four of their sources, former CIA analysts Mel Goodman and Larry Johnson; W. Patrick Lang, who ran the Middle East section for the Defense Intelligence Agency; and retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, to expand on what they wrote in "The Italian Letter. None of the four are particularly happy with the way Dick Cheney started the Iraq War. A few other culprits are also named. - Intelligence and Pressure Politics
by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce - June 15, 2007
How is a modern intelligence agency insulated from politics? Eisner and Royce discuss how the American Intelligence agancies failed to be insulated, and what can be done about that problem.
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