Politics: J'accuse!

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004906

From a former Clinton advisor.

If you think that Laurie Mylroie is best described as "a former Clinton advisor" you are either sadly uninformed or trying to mislead people. But I'm not going to say that you're lying.

eta: This is from the liner notes of Mylroie's most recent book: "Combining important new research with an insider's grasp of Beltway politics, Mylroie describes how the CIA and the State Department have systematically discredited critical intelligence about Saddam's regime, including indisputable evidence of its possession of weapons of mass destruction."

Oops.

More on Mylroie, "the neo-cons' favorite conspiracy theorist."

• In what amounts to the discovery of a unified field theory of terrorism, Mylroie believes that Saddam was not only behind the '93 Trade Center attack, but also every anti-American terrorist incident of the past decade, from the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to the leveling of the federal building in Oklahoma City to September 11 itself. She is, in short, a crackpot, which would not be significant if she were merely advising say, Lyndon LaRouche. But her neocon friends who went on to run the war in Iraq believed her theories, bringing her on as a consultant at the Pentagon, and they seem to continue to entertain her eccentric belief that Saddam is the fount of the entire shadow war against America.