Does The Pentagon Suffer From 'MSM's Alzheimer's'?
Posted by Alexandra von Maltzan on June 24, 2006 - 06:00.
David Gaubatz, an ex-intelligence officer, and former special investigator for The Pentagon, has been trying for three years to get the American weapons inspectors and the media to listen to his claims that no less than four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq are believed to contain stocks of chemical and biological weapons. h/t Antimedia:
According to Gaubatz "fresh" WMD were buried under the Euphrates River near Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq. He and other federal agents (civilians) identified, with the help of some local Iraqis who are now in the US (no doubt for their protection), four separate sites where WMD were buried, and to date no one has even bothered to check them. Charles Duelfer, according to Gaubatz, did a "substandard" job running the Iraqi Survey Group, the group tasked with tracking down Iraq's WMD.
So the question is, why does the Pentagon ignore repeated requests by one of their decorated ex-intelligence officers? The answer is simple: because it has developed a case of 'MSM's Alzheimer's' in the particular department that has the most to lose from this discovery, which would not only undermine their investigations, but have the Administration's wrath for calling off the search whilst still in possession of valuable information. From The New York Sun back in February, who carried out a telephone interview with Gaubatz, and were the only ones to run the story
Mr. Gaubatz's new disclosures shed doubt on the thoroughness of the Iraq Survey Group's search for the weapons of mass destruction that were one of the Bush administration's main reasons for the war. Two chief inspectors from the group, David Kay and Charles Duelfer, concluded that they could not find evidence of the promised stockpiles. Mr. Kay refused to be interviewed for this story and Mr. Duelfer did not return email. The CIA referred these questions to Mr. Duelfer.
Why has the administration turned its back on the WMD issue? Who has been advising them to drop this issue?
Alexandra opines at the end of the article:
I guess it is a good thing that Karl Rove reads NewsBusters, he may get some intelligence he never knew he had.
Let's hope that's right and that it wasn't Rove's rather less than stellar performance as a policy wonk that is responsible for the President seeming to run away from continuing the hunt for WMD in Iraq.
Comments