The item
below comes from the list of Michael Rubin, who worked at the Pentagon
during the Iraq War.
March 30, 2005
Buried in a Knight Ridder report today
is the acknowledgment that Knight Ridder newspapers was wrong in blaming Ahmad
Chalabi for Curveball's intelligence.
[The New York Times printed a similar correction on July 17, 2004].
Unanswered is which U.S. officials passed false information to Knight Ridder correspondents Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay and why. These two correspondents implied frequent contact with U.S. intelligence officials. Did CIA or DIA officials lie to gullible or politicized journalists for policy gain?
Old weaknesses dog U.S. spies assessing threat in Iran, Korea
By JONATHAN S. LANDAY and JOHN WALCOTT
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON - A presidential commission that's investigating U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq has concluded that many of the same weaknesses that plagued American efforts to investigate Saddam Hussein's regime are preventing the United States from collecting accurate intelligence on Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs...
It's now been determined that the INC wasn't behind Curveball's defection, as Knight Ridder reported last year...
[Full story at: URL at bottom]
[The New York Times printed a similar correction on July 17, 2004].
Unanswered is which U.S. officials passed false information to Knight Ridder correspondents Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay and why. These two correspondents implied frequent contact with U.S. intelligence officials. Did CIA or DIA officials lie to gullible or politicized journalists for policy gain?
Old weaknesses dog U.S. spies assessing threat in Iran, Korea
By JONATHAN S. LANDAY and JOHN WALCOTT
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
WASHINGTON - A presidential commission that's investigating U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq has concluded that many of the same weaknesses that plagued American efforts to investigate Saddam Hussein's regime are preventing the United States from collecting accurate intelligence on Iran's and North Korea's nuclear programs...
It's now been determined that the INC wasn't behind Curveball's defection, as Knight Ridder reported last year...
[Full story at: URL at bottom]
Among those Knight-Ridder apparently relied on were:
* Karen Kwiatkowski, who gave a three-hour read-out to the Lyndon LaRouche organization when she left the Pentagon.
* Pat Lang, a former DIA official who in a September 2003 e-mail, endorsed the scholarship of the editor of Lyndon LaRouche's magazine. Unethically, Knight-Ridder did not reveal Lang's registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for his work on behalf of a Lebanese politician.
* and, likely, Thomas Warrick, a State Department official known for both his partisanship and for backgrounding journalists.
