McCain's Role in the WMD Cover up
John McCain and Charlie Black's War
How a Senator and a Lobbyist Led the Deception Campaign
that Tricked the U.S.
By Mark G. Levey
Part 2, Part 3
April 25, 2008
Who's responsible for the "intelligence failure" that plunged the U.S. into the Iraq War? As much as anyone else, that distinction is shared by two Americans who discovered and nurtured Ahmad Chalabi and "Curveball", and pushed their fortunes in Washington.
One of those men is currently the presumptive Republican candidate for President of the United States, and the other is his chief political fixer.
This is the story about how they did it, and then shifted the spotlight of intelligence failure, political scandal, and criminal conspiracy off themselves.
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Here are some key events to keep in mind as the Iraq War deception unfolds:
1998-2003 - John McCain enthusiastically espoused the delusion about cheap and easy Middle East wars, and sponsored Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) organization, even though the CIA had cut it off for producing faulty intelligence.
1998 - McCain was a co-sponsor of the Iraq Liberation Act that led to the creation of a false intelligence factory that replaced CIA Iraq reporting. He led charges in the Senate about Iraqi WMD programs that U.S. intelligence was reporting didn't exist.
2001-2003 - Using $100 million allocated by the Act cosponsored by McCain, Ahmed Chalabi's INC generated the false intelligence about nonexistent mobile bioweapons labs cited as part of the case for the Iraq invasion. INC Chalabi's group was paid $335,000 a month in the lead-up to the Iraq war to gather intelligence.
2003 - McCain and four other Republican Senators made an appeal to Bush to "personally clear the bureaucratic roadblocks within the State Department" that stood in the way of even more funding for the INC McCain acted as a character witness for Chalabi, stating "He's a patriot who has the best interests of his country at heart."
Prior to advocating in favor of the October, 2002 Iraq War Resolution, McCain read the classified CIA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), and was briefed on multiple occasions about it. While he knew that U.S. intelligence was split over Iraq WMDs, McCain never said anything publicly about the other view contained in the classified documents in which he had been given special access.
05/03 - present - Even after the Iraq WMD deception and failed occupation became clear, McCain has refused to acknowledge that he had been wrong all along about the justifications for the Iraq War, and says he would vote again for that war, and again vote to fund Chalabi.
Senator McCain still avoids taking responsibility for his role in the Iraq intelligence failure, perhaps for no better reason than he kept some distance between himself and operatives at the Pentagon and in the Office of the Vice President who actually carried out the policy, some of whom were later convicted of espionage and related charges.
1997-present - The McCain campaign's chief publicist, Charlie Black, a powerful GOP lobbyist, has protected and promoted the cause of Ahmad Chalabi's INC organization in Washington since 1997, and also played a major role in spreading INC disinformation.
1997-present - As the Iraq War plan developed, Black's lobbying firm has received hundreds of millions from U.S. companies doing Iraq War related business, a substantial portion of the profits from which Black has funneled back to McCain and other prominent GOP leaders
Iraq War: Made in the USA
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