"The Intelligence Chain" OSP/PNAC Diagram from Mother Jones

[leftchick]

I read this excellent article today and posted it on one of TruthIsAll's great threads. I decided it needed a thread of it's own. The article in from Mother Jones and is titled "The Lie Factory". It is an excellent read and should be passed around. Here is the companion graphic that spells out all of the evil players in this cabal....


http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_405.html

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The Intelligence Chain
Illustration by Nigel Holmes

Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon established a secret intelligence unit to build the case against Iraq. The unit's members -- many of whom were recruited from neoconservative think tanks, primarily the American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century -- funneled faulty information up the chain of command, often all the way to the White House. By early 2002, the unit had been incorporated into the Defense Department's Office of Special Plans.

[Alpharetta]

1. Great chart

I'd love to get Shulsky on the stand.

[leftchick]

4. Feith is the one I would love to see squirm...

Perle already looks dead and wolfie is so far out of reality he wouldn't know what was happening to himself. Although it is so hard to choose from this thoroughly corrupt bunch...

[krkaufman]

2. Yep, yet have you heard OSP or PNAC mentioned?

Yep, the truth we've all known for some time remains hidden from the sheeple. Have you heard one mention of OSP or PNAC during all the news media segments on David Kay, when he's telling everyone that the intelligence agencies failed the White House? Gaaaahh!!

[Tinoire]

3. Fantastic Chart!

Where's Sharon though? He needs to be under the OSP since half of it was run straight out of his office without any help from Israeli Intel.

And to think that 1 year ago we had posters here tut-tutting the entire concept of PNAC under a barrage of condescension.

[Trajan]

5. MEMRI ...

Doesnt Wurmser's wife direct the operations of MEMRI ? ..

WHAT ties exist between AIPAC and Wurmser ?? ..

[Tinoire]

6. I don't know. Do you have any details before I start looking?

This is all getting so depressing.

Thanks

[leftchick]

7. Holy Shit! You are right....

Good Lord this is really getting distressing....A simple google search found this...

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/May/30%20o/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Meyrav%20Wurmser.htm

<It was only years later that I realized that Wurmser was not just an ordinary pro-Israeli but one of America’s most prominent neoconservatives. More importantly, I realized that his seemingly long-suffering wife was one of the sharpest blades in the neocon armory.

Meyrav Wurmser is an Israeli national, as opposed to most of the neocons, who are American-born. Her Ph.D. thesis was on the ideas that informed the Revisionist/Herut/ Likud Party, from Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky through Menachen Begin to Yitzhak Shamir. Dr. Wurmser has taught political science at Johns Hopkins University and at the United States Naval Academy. She writes articles for such pro-Israel publications as the Weekly Standard and the Middle East Quarterly.

A slender and bright woman, Wurmser now is director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Indianapolis-based Hudson Institute, which bills itself as “America’s premier source of applied research on enduring policy challenges.” The ubiquitous Richard Perle, who until recently was the chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, is a newly-appointed member of Hudson’s board of trustees.

Most notably, however, Wurmser has carved out her niche with the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), based in Jerusalem and Washington, DC. She runs it along with Col. Yigal Carmon, who spent 22 years as a member of the Israeli military intelligence service and later served as a counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli prime ministers, Yitzhak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.>

[leftchick]

8. which Wurmser?

and I wonder if it matters they are all thick as theives.
Info on David Wurmser....
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=David_Wurmser

<snip>David Wurmser is married to Israeli born Meyrav Wurmser who, as head of Middle East studies at the neo-conservative Hudson Institute, was the main author of a 1996 report by a task force convened by the IASPS and headed by Perle, called the 'Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000'.

The paper, called A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, was directed to incoming Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
It featured a series of recommendations designed to end the process of Israel trading land for peace by transforming the balance of power in the Middle East in favor of an axis consisting of Israel, Turkey and Jordan.
To do so, it called for ousting Saddam Hussein and installing a Hashemite leader in Baghdad. From that point, the strategy would be largely focused on Syria and, at the least, to reducing its influence in Lebanon.

... Among other steps, the report called for Israeli sponsorship of attacks on Syrian territory by "Israeli proxy forces" based in Lebanon and "striking Syrian military targets in Lebanon, and should that prove insufficient, striking at select targets in Syria proper". <4>and<5>
Wurmser is a close friend and political ally at the AEI with Richard N. Perle. Perle wrote the introduction to Wurmser's book "Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein." <6>


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Affiliations

Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (current)
"Golden Circle" Member, United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL)<7>
Research Fellow, American Institute for Public Policy Research (AIPPR), December 20, 2000<8>
Director of Research in Strategy and Politics Program, Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (Jerusalem) (1996)<9>
Director of Institutional Grants, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1994-96)<10>
Project Officer, United States Institute of Peace (1988-94)<11>

[Tinoire]

10. Ok. Now I'm getting sick. Thanks to you and Trajan n/t

[leftchick]

11. I am sorry Tinoire....

It has absolutely ruined my night also... God this all seems hopeless sometimes...

[Tinoire]

13. Yeah it's the hopelessness... Don't be sorry! I'm a political masochist

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish?Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

TS Eliot - The Waste Land

[Unknown Known]

9. Cheney's daughter works in NESA under Luti

OMG, thanks for finding this - it is gold! It lays it all out - what we here have been saying for the past year. Robert Dreyfuss is an absolutely great investigative journalist.

[dennis4868]

12. Question...

where did the NIE report come out of? Where in the chart does it show thew intelligence flow to the department that handled the NIE?

[G_j]

14. very informative thread! thanks everyone n/t

[Media_Lies_Daily]

15. Everyone should take the time to at least read the chart...proves what...

....most of us have suspected for quite some time.

Thanks for posting this.