Thursday,
April 05, 2007
BOOK:"The
Italian Letter"- Bush's Duplicity, Subterfuge, Popaganda,
and Outright Lies
The
ANNOTICO Report
The
Italian Letter, so named because it was "created" by a questionable
former Italian Agent, who provided the type of "
It reveals how
the Bush Administration Used a Fake
Letter to Build the Case for War in
It's not just
about the 16 words. Everything that would go wrong is telegraphed in this
incident." - Seymour Hersh, author of Chain of
Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib The Italian
Letter conveys "...the duplicity, subterfuge, propaganda, and outright
lies that helped sell many Americans on the need to invade Iraq. Read the book
and weep for our democracy." -
THE ITALIAN
LETTER Published by Rodale
EMedia
Wire
April 4, 2007
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NEW YORK (BusinessWire EON) April 3, 2007 -- In a
front page story reported in today's Washington Post author Peter Eisner says,
"It was 3 a.m. in Italy on Jan. 29, 2003, when President Bush in
Washington began reading his State of the Union address that included the now
famous -- later retracted -- 16 words: "The British Government has learned
that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from
Africa." The uranium claim would become a crucial justification for the
invasion of
Dozens of interviews with current and former intelligence officials and
policymakers in the United States, Britain, France and Italy show that the Bush
administration disregarded key information available at the time showing that
the Iraq-Niger claim was highly questionable. In February 2002, the CIA
received the verbatim text of one of the documents, filled with errors easily
identifiable through a simple Internet search, the interviews show. Many low-
and mid-level intelligence officials were already skeptical that
Filled with headline-making discoveries and never-before told findings, THE
ITALIAN LETTER: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the
Case for the War in Iraq (April 3, 2007, Rodale, $24.95) offers the definitive
examination of the facts behind the forged intelligence document used by the
Bush administration as a basis for going to war with Iraq. Award-winning investigative
journalists Peter Eisner and Knut Royce now provide the first book to uncover
the details of the intelligence corruption that altered the course of
contemporary history and the role of the
Italian letter, a fraudulent
intelligence document that provided evidence that the African country of Niger
was prepared to supply Iraq with 500 tons of uranium for nuclear weapons, first
surfaced in Rome in a dossier of forged documents in the fall of 2001. It made
its way to the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security
Council, the White House, including Vice President Cheney and President Bush,
and eventually the American public via the President's January 28, 2003 State
of the Union address, where George Bush said "The British government has
learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium
from Africa." The Italian letter and the "16 words" derived from
it became a critical vehicle that the Bush Administration used to convince Congress
and
Throughout their investigation, reporters Eisner and Royce sought out dozens of
current and forme r intelligence officials, as well
as policymakers in the
ITALIAN LETTER examines the following questions:
Why did the CIA forgo a simple Google search of the initial Italian letter "verbatim text,"which would have automatically discredited the forged document upon arrival?
How did knowingly false intelligence move so high up the political food chain?
Did Bush, Cheney or their aides knowingly use false information to lead the nation into war?
Why did the Bush administration order American
intelligence to spy on U.N. inspectors who were unable to confirm
Why did the Bush White House alter the CIA vetting process, leading to inclusion of the "16 words"in the State of the Union address?
Why did a top CIA official, Alan Foley, promote the issue of Iraqi weapons, when he told friends in private that he doubted any would be found after the invasion?
Why to this day does Cheney still believe there are
Weapons of Mass Destruction in
Like Barbara Tuchman's 1958 classic, The Zimmerman Telegram, about the decoded
German wire that drew the
frustration over the increasing
death toll in
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
PETER EISNER is a veteran foreign correspondent, now an editor at the
Washington Post. The Post's coverage of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which he
coordinated, won an award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He is
also author of The Freedom Line, a winner of the 2004 Christopher Award. He
lives in
KNUT ROYCE was a major contributor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning stories
in three different decades as national security correspondent for Newsday's
About Rodale Inc.
Rodale Inc., which was recognized by the trade publication Advertising Age
as Publishing Company of the Year for 2006, is the authoritative source for
trusted content around the world, reaching
nearly 40 million people each month. The company is
also the largest independent book publisher in
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