Sunday, June 18, 2006

Frontline to Examine "Neo-Conservative Cabal"

Last fall, Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff for Colin Powell said there was a "neo-conservative cabal" running the U.S. government. It appears that PBS's Frontline investigated his allegations.

Here's a link and a quote from a post at Raw Story about the Frontline episode on "The Battle to Control 'the Dark Side'" that will air this Tuesday:

In the initial stages of the war on terror, Tenet's CIA was rising to prominence as the lead agency in the Afghanistan war. But when Tenet insisted in his personal meetings with the president that there was no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Cheney and Rumsfeld initiated a secret program to re-examine the evidence and marginalize the agency and Tenet. Through interviews with DoD staffers who sifted through mountains of raw intelligence, FRONTLINE tells the story of how questionable intelligence was "stovepiped" to the vice president and presented to the public.

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