Pentagon Leaks Provide Prelude to Dismissal Of Wolfowitz-Perle
Israel Lobby In Danger Of Losing All Say Over Foreign Policy
10/23/01 11:38:19 AM
LSN Staff
Washington, DC -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today attacked
"unnamed sources" that
leaked information on a US Special Forces mission inside Afghanistan to US
journalists -- sources which everyone knows were Richard Perle, Paul
Wolfowitz,
and a handful of their aides and allies inside the administration.
According to today's London Times, "A clearly furious US Defence Secretary
said
he hoped that the US Rangers who parachuted on to Afghan soil in the early
hours of Saturday never found the individuals responsible for the leaks."
The Special Forces mission in Kandahar was a resounding failure, as US
forces
were compelled into an ignoble retreat under attack from thousands of
Taliban
fighters.
Rumsfeld had initially threatened to have those responsible for the
leaks "arrested" for "violating their security clearance", but today
moderated
his talk, and suggested that the traitors to the US government inside the
administration may merely be "held responsible". The talk was viewed by
LSN
sources as the first stage in a process by which key allies of the Israel
lobby
inside the administration will be branded as "traitors" and then purged
from
their posts.
Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz have used their positions inside the
Defense
Department to snipe at Bush, Powell, and their leadership, and have ended
up
the losers in a battle for control of White House policy in the Middle
East.
Their lobby is now trying to work "damage control" and has largely
abandoned
initial calls for a war on Iraq to instead fight a defensive action trying
to
shield blame for the 9-11 attack from Israel in the public eye.
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