Inventing a Pretext for War: An Interview with James Bamford

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Inventing a Pretext for War
An Interview with James Bamford
by Kevin B. Zeese

For more than two decades James Bamford has been a noted investigative journalist focusing on intelligence gathering in the United States. He exposed the ultra secret National Security Agency two decades ago in The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, both award-winning best sellers. He has testified as an expert witness on intelligence issues before committees of both the Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the European Parliament in Brussels and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His most recent book, A Pretext For War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies, examines intelligence gathering related to the Iraq War and 9/11. In addition to writing, he spent most of the 1990s as the Washington Investigative Producer for the ABC News program World News Tonight with Peter Jennings....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Zeese0523.htm

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Yeah, except if you watched Bamford get interviewed by

Wolf Blitzer last week, he seemed to think Negroponte was in charge to clean it up rather than that he was ONE OF THEM

[reprehensor]

2. Thanks for posting.

Bamford knows the biz.

[Martin Eden]

3. Thanks -- I just may get his book

Here's the last question & answer from the article:

Zeese: Has President Bush committed any impeachable offenses?

Bamford: It would seem logical that if Bill Clinton could be subject to impeachment for an alleged deception over a minor consensual sexual affair, George W. Bush should be subject to the same treatment for launching a deadly and seemingly endless war based on lies, distortions and deceptions. If that doesn’t qualify as a “high crime” I don’t think anything does. The key problem is massive public apathy and extremely poor press coverage. I think the only way to prevent such wars in the future would be to make every citizen an equal shareholder in the war -- not just the families of the 140,000 troops currently in Iraq. This would require legislation mandating a draft upon the deployment of a certain number of troops to a combat environment. Also legislation forbidding deficit spending for a war should be enacted. The cost of a war would have to be paid as a surcharge on all taxpayers in the year the fighting takes place. In this way, nearly every citizen would have both a personal and financial stake in a war. If such were the case today we would not be in this situation -- and if we were, there would certainly be calls for impeachment.

[struggle4progress]

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