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Re: [Pen-l] IraqTortureGate: Powell Denies Knowing He Used Tortured Evidence for UN Case

Robert Naiman <naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The Senate Intelligence Committee knows that al-Libi's false, tortured
> testimony linking Iraq to al-Qaida was part of Colin Powell's speech
> to the UN. Human Rights Watch knows it. Lawrence Wilkerson knows it.
> And you know it.
>
> But supposedly Colin Powell doesn't know it. Is this credible?
>
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/iraqtorturegate-powell-de_b_207482.html
>
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/26/8188/91703

It's not credible that he doesn't know it *now*, but it seems quite
likely that he was kept out of the loop on many things at the time.  I
don't believe the Bush administration held the State Department in very
high regard.

-- 
In Solidarity,
Billy O'Connor
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