We'll never know because the Bush administration shut down the investigation as to whether Iranian spies were in Vice President Dick Cheneys's office and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's office. The year was 2003. That's when we invaded Iraq.
We already know that Iraqi exiles who had a vested interest in seeing Saddam removed, fed bogus information to manipulate BushCo. Which BushCo. willing accepted without question, because they wanted to invade Iraq anyway, no matter what.
Iran was sworn blood enemies with Saddam, and had every reason to manipulate the cluess and hapless Bush adminstration into doing their dirty work for them: taking out their enemy Saddam Hussein. Knowing that BushCo was single mindedly and foolishly intent on waging war on the decidely pathetic, secular socialist dictatorship of the Saddam regime, it was evidently mere child's play for Iran to manipulate Bush into doing their dirty work for them.
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Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials?
By John Walcott | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have "been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service ... to reach into and influence the highest levels of the U.S. government," a Senate Intelligence Committee report said Thursday.
A top aide to then-secretary of defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, however, shut down the 2003 investigation into the Pentagon officials' activities after only a month, and the Defense Department's top brass never followed up on the investigators' recommendation for a more thorough investigation, the Senate report said.
The revelation raises questions about whether Iran may have used a small cabal of officials in the Pentagon and in Vice President Dick Cheney's office to feed bogus intelligence on Iraq and Iran to senior policymakers in the Bush administration who were eager to oust the Iraqi dictator.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 06/05/2008 | Did Iranian agents dupe Pentagon officials? |
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