Wednesday
28Feb2007
Hersh: Bush administration supporting al Qaida
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 12:59PM
Money the Bush administration is sending to the Middle East to suppress a potential ‘Shia Crescent’ forming (and strengthening the hand of Israeli enemies Hezbollah and Iran) is finding its way to into the hands of at least three Jihadist groups linked to al Qaida, argues Seymour Hersh.
Bush has no congressional authority (the money is possibly diverted from funds appropriated to Iraq) to send this money, and it is claimed that John Negroponte, the former intelligence tsar, resigned because he feared this could develop into an Iran-Contra level scandal (Negroponte was also considered by Cheney and those at the Pentagon as ‘too ethical’).
Hersh is demanding that Congress investigate his findings which he calls ‘very serious.’ This may well be the straw that breaks the administration’s back.
Via: Skeleton Project.
Bush has no congressional authority (the money is possibly diverted from funds appropriated to Iraq) to send this money, and it is claimed that John Negroponte, the former intelligence tsar, resigned because he feared this could develop into an Iran-Contra level scandal (Negroponte was also considered by Cheney and those at the Pentagon as ‘too ethical’).
Hersh is demanding that Congress investigate his findings which he calls ‘very serious.’ This may well be the straw that breaks the administration’s back.
Via: Skeleton Project.
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