Important: OSP Report: "devastating condemnation"

[lala_rawraw]

Please forgive me for posting my own article, but this is very important (not because I wrote it):

A 'devastating condemnation' of OSP and Feith
by Larisa Alexandrovna

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/A_devastating_condemnation_of_OSP_and_0208.html

"Contrary to speculation and some earlier reports, the Department of Defense Inspector General's office did not exonerate the controversial Office of Special Plans, which has been accused of cooking pre-war intelligence on Iraq, nor was its then chief overseer, former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith, vindicated.

According to a statement released by Armed Services Committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) Thursday night to RAW STORY, the IG's report is a "devastating condemnation of the activities of the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.

<snip>

"The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy developed, produced and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers.

<snip>

"Section 502 of the National Security Act of 1947 requires the heads of all departments and agencies of the U.S. government involved in intelligence activities ‘to keep the congressional oversight committees informed.’"

note: edited to include last snip

[Bonobo]

1. When does this rise to the level of TREASON in pundit's eyes? Can you answer, Lala?

[lala_rawraw]

2. I am not an attorney

But there are serious issues raised here and they should be of concern to all of us, perhaps THE concern.

[seemslikeadream]

11. I asked that question Mon Sep-06-04

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=125&topic_id=18796

[Bonobo]

12. And that's been shoved away into 9/11 forum? Why?

Man, it sure looks like Israel is deep in it...

That one hurts personally, being Jewish... Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with Geopolitics, but still... :(

[lala_rawraw]

31. here is the declas exec report

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Raw_Story_first_to_acquire_declassified_0209.html

[133724]

34. Treason is defined in the Constitution

One of the definitions includes the phrase "levying war on the united states" I think(not an attorney) that lying the US into an unnecessary of aggression would qualify under that phrase. When Bush lied to the congress inorder to start a war he was in fact levying war on the united states; hence the treason charge

[illinoisprogressive]

3. Actually, I am not surprised. Why else would they try to keep it hiden

[lala_rawraw]

4. Because

The first post after the OP uses the correct word

[alittlelark]

5. Wasn't the OSP overseen by Cheney (in minute detail)?

I don't see his name in the story....

[TahitiNut]

7. It was Rummy's baby. But we know how Rummy and Cheney were tight.

OSP didn't just 'gather' intelligence ... they fabricated it, imho.

[alittlelark]

10. Thanks for the clarification.

They are both fetid pustules on the ass of humanity.

[alittlelark]

14. I seem to remember a few stories about Cheney

GOING to the CIA, military.... Was he just the 'enforcer'?

[TahitiNut]

15. I think so. He was making sure they knew what the "company line" was.

I think he was also trying to find those bothersome truth-tellers ... so he could "take care" of them. It'd be interesting to know how many people found themselves on the outside.

[alittlelark]

18. Soooo, WHY is CHENEY not mentioned????

(head exploding)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

30. "In Rumsfeld's Shop" by Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski

This series of three articles had been published in of all places the American Conservative Magazine (Pat Buchanan's magazine)

http://www.amconmag.com/12_1_03/feature.html

[Hissyspit]

6. Even the earlier reports on this report used the phrase "inappropriate but legal"

What in the world is the Vice President setting up an "inappropriate" mechanism in the PENTAGON dealing with SECURITY and FOREIGN POLICY INTELLIGENCE. Even the weaker terminology "inappropriate but legal" means they were up to stuff that should be investigated and is impeachable.

By the way, Larisa, sorry I didn't get to meet you in D.C. Hope you are yours are well.

[lala_rawraw]

8. I did not go hon

I had and still have flu... cannot seem to shake it. Spent part of today hurling and the rest reporting. Sorry if that was kind of gross. I have no shame :hurts:

[Hissyspit]

17. I have not had the flu in a long time. But when I get it, I'm just like you.

It sticks with me a long time.

Take care of yourself.

[midnight]

44. It is the most confounding term..... "inappropriate but legal"

What is going to become of such craziness?

[nam78_two]

9. K&R.nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

13. Inappropriate -- my ass!

Treasonous bastards are still in positions of power. Dissemination of this report needs to be conducted in an expeditious manner. Impeach, indict, imprison!
Thanks Larisa -- hope you get to feeling better soon.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

16. Sen. Carl Levin, could you call a press conference and fill us in, please?

Thanks for posting, Lala...You can always post your stories here, or we can wait for kpete to do it. Get well soon!

Recommended!

edited to add: Pentagon unit developed "dubious" prewar intel: report
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2007-02-09T055451Z_01_N08313529_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-IRAQ-REPORT.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-2

snip:
By JoAnne Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. defense policy chief Douglas Feith developed and issued "dubious" intelligence that was used to bolster the Bush administration's case for the invasion of Iraq, a Pentagon watchdog agency said in a report to be released on Friday.

The conclusion by Feith's office that there was a "mature symbiotic relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda was inconsistent with the view of the U.S. intelligence community, according to excerpts of the Pentagon inspector general's report released by Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"An alternative intelligence assessment process was established in the office of Under Secretary for Policy Doug Feith ... that was predisposed to finding a significant relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. His staff then conducted its own review of raw intelligence reports, including reporting of dubious quality and reliability," the report said.


"They arrived at an 'alternative' interpretation of the Iraq-al Qaeda relationship that was much stronger than that assessed by the IC (intelligence community) and more in accord with the policy views of senior officials in the administration," the report concluded.
Snip:

Here is 30 more stories on this subject:
http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&ta=&ncl=1113380245

[upi402]

19. while CNN shows black folks getting busted for drugs

racist, as well as betrayers of democracy.

oh, and Anna Nicole Smith in a salacious light.

[slipslidingaway]

20. Thanks K&R n/t

[Oilwellian]

21. When is Rockefeller releasing...

the second part of the Senate Intel report that Roberts hid for over 2 years? It's supposed to be all about the phony intel used to gin up for war. Also, Karen Kwiatkowski is a must read if you're to understand the OSP completely.

[leveymg]

22. I'll be curious to see whether the Israeli espionage angle even gets mentioned in the report

I've seen zero reporting on the fact that Larry Franklin was salting Pentagon Iran files with materials "suggested by" the Mossad Chief of Station. I'd really like to see those documents. All the major media ever reports is that Franklin was meeting with AIPAC and taking classified documents home.

Wonder how much more of that was going on, or if anyone even bothered to ask.

Thanks for keeping on top of this one, LaLa. Hope your tummy gets lots better, soon.

[H2O Man]

24. Good point.

I agree, fully.

[NewJeffCT]

27. I was thinking that very thing when reading it earlier

In my local paper - I was thinking, hmm, nothing on AIPAC, nothing on Franklin, etc.

[seemslikeadream]

33. Feith and Franklin

Analyst Charged With Passing Iran Info: Franklin Turned Self InTo FBI
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1444053
Fieth resigns from Pentagon today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1186412
Former CIA official looks to leak the truth
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=886884
New Israeli spy probe has a 30-year history, insiders say
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=852863
Israel's Mole Inside the Pentagon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161
FBI probes Jewish sway on Bush government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802725
Money from Iran Fuels Iraq Insurgency -Rumsfeld
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=810129
Israeli spy nest in the U.S. - Ashcroft says: ’Don’t arrest them!’
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=802249
FBI probes DOD office (spy probe widens)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=784155
F.B.I said to reach official suspected of passing secrets ....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=786361
Analyst Who Is Target of Probe Went to Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=784792
Knight Ridder:FBI espionage probe goes beyond Israeli allegations
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=784274
Pentagon Analyst Was Cooperating When Israel Spy Case Became Public
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=786505
Iran-Contra II? Fresh scrutiny on rogue Pentagon operation -Josh Marshall
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=784906
AIPAC's Overt and Covert Ops
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=788267
UK Express: (Perle) Faces (FBI) Quiz Over Links to Israeli Spy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=785131
Israel Says It Has No Need to Spy on U.S.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=787437
F.B.I. Is Said to Brief Pentagon Bosses on Spy Case; Charges Are Possible
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=788936
LAT: FBI Questions Israeli Lobbyists (AIPAC) in Spying Probe ((Gilon mentioned)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=789576
FBI briefs Wolfowitz on Israeli spy claim
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=790076
F.B.I. Interviews 2 Suspected of Passing Secrets to Israel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=792950
FBI seizes computer from AIPAC offices
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=791564
Pentagon Office in Spying Case Was Focus of Iran Debate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795432
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795905
AIPAC hires lawyers
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794332
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=794029
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=797181
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798060
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=799167
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=795817
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798333
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=798631
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=803022
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=803035
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=783161
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=805885
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=815381
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x803017

[Tin Man]

41. Great stuff, SLD - K&R

[bobthedrummer]

38. The espionage by anyone-what a can of worms releasing the identity of Mr. Joseph Wilson's

wife has unleashed.

It's necessary to take as much of an objective look as possible at the social networks and political affiliations of those that have occupied positions of authority and responsibility and made political appointments throughout the public and private sectors.

In any methodology using open sources (as well as "secret" sources) objectivism is not possible for any human being, especially when we are talking about betrayal of trust that often involves breaking down a belief system and replacing it with others.

We need to assess what facts are known from all open sources including those that are repulsive to many researchers for any number of reasons.

Blowback and reaction to what facts and truths we find can be personally damaging, it can be fatal.

We only need remember how much bloodshed, tragedy and destruction these traitors and criminals have unleashed in the world with their lies and manipulations by falsely claiming to represent the will of the people of our nation, The United States of America.

Research into espionage by use of open sources, what a task in an increasingly RW national security state-analysis of the social networks of spouses, children, extended families, colleagues, friends, romantic interests, organizations, foundations, etc., by motivated citizens that have seen the "impossible" happen here blamed on "intelligence failures".



Examples that enter into this are people like: Joyce Rumsfeld, Yana Feith, Danielle Crittenden, Barbara Ledeen, Meyrav Wurmser, Lynne Cheney, Elizabeth Cheney-spouses and children of Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, David Frum, Michael Ledeen, David Wurmser, Richard Cheney.

That's my take on treason and espionage-which are present throughout the corrupted politicized networks within what I symbolically refer to as BFEE's HOMELAND(tm) and the Decider's war on terror.

[robertpaulsen]

47. According to The Guardian, OSP tried to be more alarmist than the Mossad!

The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.

"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.

The exchange of information continued a long-standing relationship Mr Feith and other Washington neo-conservatives had with Israel's Likud party.

snip

The Israeli influence was revealed most clearly by a story floated by unnamed senior US officials in the American press, suggesting the reason that no banned weapons had been found in Iraq was that they had been smuggled into Syria. Intelligence sources say that the story came from the office of the Israeli prime minister.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html

[lala_rawraw]

48. i think your question

is probably the primary reason the whole thing is classified, just my op, not something I know to be true... but something to consider

[DemReadingDU]

23. morning kick

[H2O Man]

25. Nominated.

Feith was more than a fellow who made unintentional errors.

[NewJeffCT]

26. Thanks - my local paper picked this story up (The Hartford Courant) and mentions Cheney

Probe Cites `Alternative' Intel Reports
Pentagon Unit Faulted Over Pre-War Data
February 9, 2007
Combined Wire Services

WASHINGTON -- A special unit run by former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld's top policy aide inappropriately produced "alternative" intelligence reports that wrongly concluded that Saddam Hussein's regime had cooperated with al-Qaida, a Pentagon investigation has determined.

The Pentagon's inspector general found that the intelligence provided by former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith and his staff included "reporting of dubious quality or reliability." Feith's work supported the political views of senior administration officials rather than the conclusions of the intelligence community, the Pentagon said.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who requested the investigation, called the findings "devastating" because senior administration officials, particularly Vice President Dick Cheney, used Feith's work to help make their case for the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-iraqus0209.artfeb09,0,7387450.story

[hootinholler]

28. Another Feith based initiative gone bad. n/t

[Tin Man]

40. badaboom-tsch!!!

Uhgggggg!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. It was quickly reported on the Today Show this morning, saying that the info was damning! eom

[EVDebs]

32. Report makes 'no recommendations'. Pilate washes his hands.

Democracy lies naked and bleeding in the streets.

It continues to be possible that an independent extra-governmental group can infiltrate the DoD and end-run the established modes of intelligence gathering in order to further the extra governmental group's wishes.

Joseph Schmitz, the former DoD OIG, is still an active member of SMOM, the Knights of Malta (see his bio).

"Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men ? The Shadow knows !"

[Jcrowley]

35. K&R

A History of Internationalism
Turkey
In 1989, Feith registered International Advisors, Inc. (IAI) as a foreign agent representing the government of Turkey. The brainchild of Richard N. Perle, IAI's stated purpose was to "promote the objective of U.S.-Turkey defense industrial cooperation."

Douglas Feith was not only the CEO of IAI but also its only stockholder. Feith earned $60,000 per year and his law firm, Feith and Zell, was the recipient from IAI of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 1992, Feith joined with Perle and other neo-cons opposing President George H.W. Bush's stern policy on Israel in forming the Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East.

<snip>

Feith has supported lobbying efforts aimed at persuading the United States to drop out of treaties and arms control agreements. Wrote one journalist in The Nation, “Largely ignored or derided at the time, a 1995 memo co-written by Douglas Feith holding that the United States should withdraw from the ABM treaty has essentially become policy, as have other CSP reports opposing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention and the International Criminal Court.”

Source: Center for Security Policy 98-D139

Feith’s private business dealings have also raised eyebrows in Washington. In 1999, his firm Feith & Zell formed an alliance with the Israel-based Zell, Goldberg & Co., which resulted in the creation of the Fandz International Law Group. According to Fandz’s web site, the law group “has recently established a task force dealing with issues and opportunities relating to the recently ended war with Iraq. ... and is assisting regional construction and logistics firms to collaborate with contractors from the United States and other coalition countries in implementing infrastructure and other reconstruction projects in Iraq.” Remarked Washington Post columnist Al Kamen, “Interested parties can reach through its Web site, at www.fandz.com. Fandz.com? Hmmm. Rings a bell. Oh, yes, that was the Web site of the Washington law firm of Feith & Zell, P.C., as in Douglas Feith undersecretary of defense for policy and head of -- what else? -- reconstruction matters in Iraq. It would be impossible indeed to overestimate how perfect ZGC would be in ‘assisting American companies in their relations with the United States government in connection with Iraqi reconstruction projects.’”

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Douglas_Feith

[kentuck]

36. This is what needs investigated...

rather than wasting time on "non-binding resolutions"...

[donkeyotay]

37. Seems pretty obvious that this marriage of US and Israeli defense

has some pretty bad consequences for the US, but our government plods on undaunted. Last I saw, our congress was still doing loyalty pledges to AIPAC, instead of making reforms. Nothing is being contemplated to make our congress responsive to the American people again. We are paying dearly for this lack of clarity in Washington.

But I'm supposed to get excited because of minimum wage? You just blew up my social security in Iraq. You just spent my children's taxes on one of the legion defense contractors lined up with their palms up. And there's no exit strategy or end in sight. It looks like permanent war for Israel, and my god it's taken years of fighting even to be able to say that, even now it's the "new anti-Semitism."

[mmonk]

39. Certainly no need to apologize.

It should be one of the lead stories in every paper in this country (and every broadcast). And "devastating comdemnation" shouldn't be minimized by anyone in the political spectrum or by any news organization. Good work as usual.

[stevietheman]

42. The Rove Noise Machine is on top of it

One, we have Feith *yelling* his innocence on NPR today; he doth protest too much on a radio discussion show where the participants normally speak softly.

And Two, we have SecDef Gates stating today how "surprised" he was to the degree of Iranian involvement in the Iraqi insurgency.

All smells fishy, as in a fish rots from the head.

[Tin Man]

45. Feith was a bit agitated on NPR, wasn't he?

Squirm, Feith... you dirty rat bastard.

Just like Iraq, I think IraqGate is about to blow-up.

[halobeam]

43. IG testimony on Levin hearing ....link to some blogging re: hearing

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18384

[lala_rawraw]

49. thanks...

i missed much of what went on because if finally napped... nice to see that some people see news in this... amazing to me what MSM priorities are

[MasonJar]

46. I am being quite dense today, but I fail to see why this action is

NOT illegal. If it isn't, it should be.

[bleever]

50. K&R.

:thumbsup:

[bobthedrummer]

51. .

[symbolman]

52. Thanks LaLa

Sorry you're ill, flu is the worst, hope you get better soon :)

Watched Feith today on CNN with Wolfie, and Feith is SCARED SHITLESS. Before the interview even STARTED Feith's chest was HEAVING, if they rerun, watch for it, the body language is very apparent.

He thinks he's going to JAIL, he seems pretty sure of it, and I could NOT Believe the SPIN, he was making me dizzy, but the best part was that Wolfie was actually Going for the Jugular, and Feith was LOSING IT, lost in Bush Babble.

What he was saying DIDN'T EVEN MAKE SENSE to HIM, and it showed.

I guess Rockefeller plans on making this a CRIMINAL, FEDERAL CASE, and I think Feith knows his goose is COOKED.

I want to see two people Immediately Marched off in CHAINS after interviewed by Congress, or Waxman, BREMER should have been LED OUT IN SHACKLES Until his 'Memory' IMPROVES.

And now FEITH needs to be put into public stocks, or chained like Charlie Manson, until he starts spilling the beans.

You start Jailing these guys and they'll roll over faster than a prom date with round heels. (And that could be a Male, just so you ladies know :) )

JAIL THEM, NOW, eat away at the edges, just like Fitz is doing, and soon you'll get to the Creamy Center. :)

"Inappropriate but LEGAL"??? NONSENSE, straight out of the Rove FAX machine to all of the Media.

Funny, though, Wolfie smells BLOOD in the water, and has been going for the throat recently, I smell a sea change, he's the kind of guy that wants to be on the WINNING SIDE (US DEMS), and say it was a Scoop as well :)

Get better Lala, that's an ORDER :)

[dweller]

53. ...

:kick:

dp

[jazzjunkysue]

54. Kick. n/t.