From: Bill Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 25, 2007 6:34:25 PM PST
Subject: TREASON! President Bush Sends Funds To Sunnis That End Up
In The Hands of Al-Qaeda
TREASON! President Bush Sends Funds To Sunnis That End Up In The
Hands of
Al-Qaeda
by KDANTEATER
Sun Feb 25, 2007 at 02:21:50 PM PST
"You are either with us or you are with the terrorist."
-President George W. Bush
I have not written a diary entry in a long while, mostly because I
get a lot
of negeative comments no matter what I post. However, I cannot
allow this
story to fall by the way side. Excuse me if the writing is a bit
sloppy, but
I am a bit tired after a long week at work. I will write a brief
summary and
provide a link to the article. Please contact your Congressperson
and tell
them to open an investigation into these incredibly serious
allegations.
KDANTEATER's diary :: ::
It is very simple to understand: if the information in Sy Hersh's
article is
substantiated, the president would have committed treason. Sy Hersh
has
reported that the Bush administration has been spending money, without
Congressional approval, to " stem the growth of the Shiite
influence in the
Middle East." Some of the money that this adminstration has used to
quell a
Shiite uprising has, "ended up in the hands of "three Sunni
jihadist groups"
who are "connected to al Qaeda" but "want to take on Hezbollah." Our
president is funding Al-Qaeda, the group that America is at war
against.
Hersh says that the administration knew where the money was going
but kept
sending it to the Sunnis. He believes that this is why John
Negroponte has
stepped down as the head of U.S. intelligence, because he did not
want to be
involved with funding Al-Qaeda.
Americans, no matter what political party you belong to, you must
be ashamed
of your commander and chief for he has committed treason against
you. There
is no excuse for his actions.
Hersh: U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Violent Al Qaeda-
Linked Groups
New Yorker columnist Sy Hersh says the "single most explosive"
element of
his latest article involves an effort by the Bush administration to
stem the
growth of Shiite influence in the Middle East (specifically the
Iranian
government and Hezbollah in Lebanon) by funding violent Sunni groups.
Hersh says the U.S. has been "pumping money, a great deal of money,
without
congressional authority, without any congressional oversight" for
covert
operations in the Middle East where it wants to "stop the Shiite
spread or
the Shiite influence." Hersh says these funds have ended up in the
hands of
"three Sunni jihadist groups" who are "connected to al Qaeda" but
"want to
take on Hezbollah."
Hersh summed up his scoop in stark terms: "We are simply in a
situation
where this president is really taking his notion of executive
privilege to
the absolute limit here, running covert operations, using money
that was not
authorized by Congress, supporting groups indirectly that are
involved with
the same people that did 9/11."
Hersh added, "All of this should be investigated by Congress, by
the way,
and I trust it will be. In my talking to membership — members
there, they
are very upset that they know nothing about this. And they have
great many
suspicions."
Transcript:
BLITZER: Near the end of your article, you have this explosive
point in
there about John Negroponte, who is now going to be the deputy
secretary of
state, as opposed to the head of U.S. intelligence.
You write this: "I was subsequently told by the two government
consultants
and the former senior intelligence officials that the echoes of
Iran-Contra
were a factor in Negroponte’s decision to resign from the National
Intelligence directorship and accept the position of deputy
secretary of
state."
Explain what you were hearing, because that is obviously a very
explosive
charge.
HERSH: Yes. It is probably the single most explosive, if you will, or
depressing — or distressing sort of thing I discovered in the last few
months, which is simply this. This administration has made a policy
change,
a decision that they are going to put all of the pressure they can
on the
Shiites, that is the Shiite regime in Iran, the Shiite — and they
are also
doing everything they can to stop Hezbollah — which is Shiite, the
Hezbollah
organization from getting any control or any more of a political
foothold in
Lebanon.
So they essentially, I quote the — I saw Nasrallah, the head of
Hezbollah,
and he described it this way, as "fitna (ph)," the Arab word for
"civil
war." As far as he is concerned, we are interested in recreating
what is
happening in Iraq in Lebanon, that is Sunni versus Shia. And in
looking into
that story, and I saw him in December, I found this. That we have been
pumping money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority,
without any congressional oversight, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia is
putting up some of this money, for covert operations in many areas
of the
Middle East where we think that the — we want to stop the Shiite
spread or
the Shiite influence.
They call it the "Shiite Crescent." And a lot of this money, and I
can’t
tell you with absolute certainty how — exactly when and how, but
this money
has gotten into the hands — among other places, in Lebanon, into
the hands
of three — at least three jihadist groups. There are three Sunni
jihadist
groups whose main claim to fame inside Lebanon right now is that
they are
very tough. These are people connected to al Qaeda who want to take on
Hezbollah. So this government, at the minimum, we may not directly be
funneling money to them, but we certainly know that these groups
exist.
My government, which arrests al Qaeda every place it can find them
and send
— some of them are n Guantanamo and other places, is sitting back
while the
Lebanese government we support, the government of Prime Minister
Siniora, is
providing arms and sustenance to three jihadist groups whose sole
function,
seems to me and to the people that talk to me in our government, to
be there
in case there is a real shoot-’em-up with Hezbollah and we really
get into
some sort of serious major conflict between the Sunni government and
Hezbollah, which is largely Shia, who are basically — or as you
know, there
is a coalition headed by Hezbollah that is challenging the
government right
now, demonstrations, sit-ins.
There has been some violence. So America, my country, without telling
Congress, using funds not appropriated, I don’t know where, by my
sources
believe much of the money obviously came from Iraq where there is
all kinds
of piles of loose money, pools of cash that could be used for covert
operations.
All of this should be investigated by Congress, by the way, and I
trust it
will be. In my talking to membership — members there, they are very
upset
that they know nothing about this. And they have great many
suspicions.
We are simply in a situation where this president is really taking his
notion of executive privilege to the absolute limit here, running
covert
operations, using money that was not authorized by Congress,
supporting
groups indirectly that are involved with the same people that did
9/11, and
we should be arresting these people rather than looking the other
way...
BLITZER: And your bottom line, Sy...
HERSH: ... and could lead to a real mess...
BLITZER: Your bottom line is that Negroponte was aware of this,
obviously,
and he wanted to distance himself from it? That is why he decided
to give up
that position and take the number two job at the State Department?
HERSH: He — that is one of the reasons, I was told. Negroponte also
was not
in tune with Cheney. There was a lot of complaints about him
because he was
seen as much of a stickler, too ethical for some of the operations the
Pentagon wants to run.
