27 março 2003

ECO-TERROR
E já que tanto se fala da propaganda iraquiana, porque não ler:
White House prepares to feed 24-hour news cycle: Before the attacks began, Suzy DeFrancis, deputy assistant to President Bush for communications, outlined the daily media relations hand-off that was about to begin.
"When Americans wake up in the morning, they will first hear from the (Persian Gulf) region, maybe from General Tommy Franks," she said. "Then later in the day, they'll hear from the Pentagon, then the State Department, then later on the White House will brief."
Before anyone goes on air, however, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer will set the day's message with an early-morning conference call to British counterpart Alastair Campbell, White House communications director Dan Bartlett, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, Pentagon spokesperson Torie Clarke, and White House Office of Global Communication (OGC) director Tucker Eskew - a routine that mirrors procedure during the conflict in Afghanistan.
Who Lied to Whom? Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?
Dear Mr. President: it has become incontrovertibly clear that a key piece of evidence you and other Administration officials have cited regarding Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear weapons is a hoax.
The Nuclear Whodunit, Part 3: CIA analysts do a CYA, telling the press, Don't blame the phony nuke docs on us!
The story behind the forged documents and how they made their way from the United States to U.N. inspectors is important because it suggests the Bush administration is 1) incompetent; 2) stupid; 3) corrupt; or 4) all of the above.

E quanto a secretismos:
Bush Orders a 3-Year Delay in Opening Secret Documents: President Bush today signed an executive order that will delay the release of millions of government documents and make it easier for presidents and their administrations to keep historical records secret.
Release of Documents Is Delayed: The Bush administration last night issued an order delaying the release of millions of government documents and giving the government new powers to reclassify information.
The order, rewriting a Clinton administration directive, allows the government to delay until the end of 2006 the release of documents that otherwise would have been out by April 17 under a program of automatic declassification after 25 years. The government now has more discretion to keep information classified indefinitely if it falls within a broad definition of national security.