$20,000 bonus to official who agreed on nuke claim

[stewert]

This is big, the guy was basically bribed, and told others who disagreed to sit down and shut up. It
looks like this guy used O'Reilly tactics. If they don't agree with you, tell them to sit
down and shut up, then collect your bribe.

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OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM
$20,000 bonus to official
who agreed on nuke claim
Energy Dept. honcho ordered
dissenters at Iraq pre-briefing to
'shut up, sit down'

Posted: August 12, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Paul Sperry
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – A former Energy
Department intelligence chief who agreed
with the White House claim that Iraq had
reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms
program was awarded a total of $20,500
in bonuses during the build-up to the
war, WorldNetDaily has learned.

Thomas Rider, as acting director of
Energy's intelligence office, overruled
senior intelligence officers on his staff in
voting for the position at a National
Foreign Intelligence Board meeting at
CIA headquarters last September.

His officers argued at a pre-briefing at
Energy headquarters that there was no
hard evidence to support the alarming
Iraq nuclear charge, and asked to join
State Department's dissenting opinion,
Energy officials say.

Rider ordered them to "shut up and sit
down," according to sources familiar with
the meeting.

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1. Follow Up: Nuke group exposed Niger fraud in 'days'

IAEA quickly spotted errors in
letters that escaped U.S. intelligence
for months

Posted: July 21, 2003

By Paul Sperry
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

WASHINGTON – The International
Atomic Energy Agency was able to figure
out in just 10 days something that had
escaped U.S. intelligence for months –
that documents alleging Iraq recently
sought uranium from Africa were
forgeries, an IAEA letter to Congress
reveals.

With the help of the Internet, IAEA
officials quickly spotted crude errors in
letters claiming to be signed by officials of
Niger in 2000. One is allegedly from a
foreign minister who had been out of
office for 11 years. Another, allegedly
from the president of Niger, bears an
obsolete presidential seal on the
letterhead.

The Vienna, Austria-based group, which
has conducted regular nuclear inspections
in Iraq, received the documents from the
Bush administration in early February,
after first requesting them in December.
The State Department, for one, had them
since October.

The president delivered his State of the
Union speech, which included the
uranium charge, on Jan. 28.

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