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• Tuesday, August 5, 2008 06:41 PM

  Busheviks threaten retired CIA officials with loss of retirement pay or worse if they don't deny what they said in Suskind's book

  Well that is a guess on my part. Of course everyone now denies and lies. One problem, those interviewed in the book were recorded. Hope Suskind has multiple copies and bodyguards. Below excerpts is link to Suskind appearance on Countdown. (see sig)

  AP, WASHINGTON - Two former CIA officers Tuesday denied that they or the spy agency faked an Iraqi intelligence document purporting to link Saddam Hussein with 9/11 bomber Mohammed Atta, as they are quoted as saying in a new book.

  The White House issued the statement on behalf of the former officials after a day of adamant denials from the CIA and Bush administration about the claim, made in "The Way of the World," a book by Washington-based journalist Ron Suskind.

  "I never received direction from George Tenet or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document ... as outlined in Mr. Suskind's book," said Robert Richer, the CIA's former deputy director of clandestine operations.

  Richer also said he talked Tuesday to John Maguire, who headed the CIA's Iraq Operations Group at the time and who gave Richer "permission to state the following on his behalf: `I never received any instruction from then Chief/NE Rob Richer or any other officer in my chain of command instructing me to fabricate such a letter. Further, I have no knowledge to the origins of the letter and as to how it circulated in Iraq," the statement said.

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080805/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_iraq

  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26045433

  Dear Paul,

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