Sounding more like a cast member of the Sopranos than an international leader, in testimony by one key witness Mr Wolfowitz declares: "If they fuck with me or Shaha, I have enough on them to fuck them too."
The remarks were published in a report detailing the controversy that erupted last month after the size of Ms Riza’s pay rises was revealed.
In this widely quoted outburst from Paul Wolfowitz, the focus has been on his four letter word. To me, much more damning is his threat to retaliate by smearing his oponents [I think it’s called blackmail]. It occurs to me that Paul Wolfowitz was the Assistant Secretary of Defense, an Administration insider, until 2005. He originated the Bush Doctrine, he set up the Office of Special Plans with Douglas Feith, and is called the "Architect of the Iraq War." I can hear him saying this same thing about Joseph Wilson when Wilson’s op-ed came out. And I can hear him saying "Out his fucking wife. That’ll fuck him good!" He was certainly well placed to know about Valerie Plame’s job. He is certainly vicious enough to propose such a thing. And he was certainly a major player in the rush to war on false information. Paul Wolfowitz, former under secretary of defense, has been identified in recently released grand jury transcripts as being involved in a White House smear campaign against Joseph Wilson, the former US ambassador who accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq War.
The previously undisclosed development comes on the heels of a scathing report released last week by the Defense Department’s Office of the Inspector General that said Wolfowitz played a key role in the cooking of intelligence related to Iraq’s ties to al-Qaeda and its supposed cache of chemical and biological weapons. That effort helped the White House lay the groundwork for a US-led invasion.
Taken as a whole, the involvement of Wolfowitz in a full-scale effort to undermine the credibility of an Iraq War critic, and his hands-on role in knowingly providing the White House with the sort of dubious intelligence that came under scrutiny by people like Wilson, shows how widespread the issues surrounding manipulated intelligence truly were, and how crucial it became for senior members of the Bush administration to discredit anyone who threatened to expose their ruse…
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