The Yellowcake Connection and more

... CIA officer Mary McCarthy was fired for leaking a possibly trumped-up story about a secret network of CIA-run prisons in Europe. Ms. McCarthy’s pattern of political donations, her Clinton administration White House service, and her extensive network of ties to other important Clintonista figures has set off a blogstorm of data mining and speculation...
Good read today at The American Thinker.
Be sure to click it out.
AubreyJ.........

The Saddam Files 2000

Joseph Shahda has translated yet another interesting document from the captured Iraqi files, although this one prompts more questions than it provides answers. The memo dictates goals for the year 2000 that involve the development and improvement of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that have been the mainstay of the insurgencies in Iraq after the fall of Saddam (via Power Line.)
To read story in full at Captain’s Quarters, click HERE

Saddam and Osama

... Interestingly enough, the existence of this document was first reported by The New York Times in the summer of 2004, several weeks after the 9-11 Commission proclaimed that there was no operational relationship between Saddam’s Iraq and al Qaeda. For some reason, the Times decided to sit on the document while splashing the 9-11 Commission’s conclusion on the front page...

Now here is another great... but lengthy read... on some of the already translated documents captured from the fallen Iraqi regime and the Taliban....
Click it out at FRONTPAGEMAG.COM
AubreyJ.........

Choosing Ignorance

April 4, 2006 ... One might have expected such a longtime champion of open government as the Times to have aggressively led the effort to have these once-secret documents released. Not this time. The front-page story seeks to dismiss the importance of the documents while the op-ed by Bergen seems to find them only significant enough to warrant an attempted deconstruction...
Read story in full, by Stephen F. Hayes at Mediachannel.org

One More Link

... A new document shows Saddam Hussein's spy agency encouraged Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group, to attack American targets. It's another blow to the idea Saddam had nothing to do with terrorists...
Read full story at INVESTORS.com