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	<title>Comments on: The Rendon Group: Proof The Administration Manipulated Intelligence</title>
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		<title>By: Keith Smith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-252630</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 23:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So why do you think your government is making a mall sale mad dash for the oil nations? Like too many American&#039;s, the focus is on the prize and those unfortunate enough to fall down will no doubt be stepped on or over never taking their eye&#039;s off the wanted item. No one to help get up, they are on their own to try and  survive the ones who are way behind and pushing ever harder to get inside. 

I&#039;m sorry to say millions of American&#039;s are too busy trying to survive just paying the bills to notice the war crimes in Iraq and only want to escape the real woe&#039;s of the world with books, porn, video games and TV shows. Only awaking from thier stuper to respond when an attacks are on American soil has occured. Mind you,  only for a few day&#039;s cause they don&#039;t want to miss Survivor Island.

Believe me, more Canadians are paying attention these day&#039;s to Bush who&#039;s last visit to Canada he made mentioned his fathers &quot;New World Order&quot; again but most people polled in my country decided that there is no freaking way we want to ever sign our country over to what is clearly an inept and mafia ridden American government that kills it&#039;s own presidents, [magic bullet]  allows soldiers to die in Pearl Harbour and force US citzens during the 9/11 mission to hold hands and jump to their deaths rather then burn to death. Building 7 is your magic bullet and PH rolled into one and somehow they know they&#039;re gonna get away with this one too.  Why?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So why do you think your government is making a mall sale mad dash for the oil nations? Like too many American&#8217;s, the focus is on the prize and those unfortunate enough to fall down will no doubt be stepped on or over never taking their eye&#8217;s off the wanted item. No one to help get up, they are on their own to try and  survive the ones who are way behind and pushing ever harder to get inside. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry to say millions of American&#8217;s are too busy trying to survive just paying the bills to notice the war crimes in Iraq and only want to escape the real woe&#8217;s of the world with books, porn, video games and TV shows. Only awaking from thier stuper to respond when an attacks are on American soil has occured. Mind you,  only for a few day&#8217;s cause they don&#8217;t want to miss Survivor Island.</p>
<p>Believe me, more Canadians are paying attention these day&#8217;s to Bush who&#8217;s last visit to Canada he made mentioned his fathers &#8220;New World Order&#8221; again but most people polled in my country decided that there is no freaking way we want to ever sign our country over to what is clearly an inept and mafia ridden American government that kills it&#8217;s own presidents, [magic bullet]  allows soldiers to die in Pearl Harbour and force US citzens during the 9/11 mission to hold hands and jump to their deaths rather then burn to death. Building 7 is your magic bullet and PH rolled into one and somehow they know they&#8217;re gonna get away with this one too.  Why?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=252630', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MATT LAMBERT</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-250212</link>
		<dc:creator>MATT LAMBERT</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I remember back in 1999 before the chimp took office,there was a group of folks in texas that tried to warn us about Bush.Don&#039;t remember the groups name,but its spokeperson came right out and said that if we elect this man to office he will destroy our country in much the same that he tried to destroy Texas.To bad i was the only one watching it seems.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I remember back in 1999 before the chimp took office,there was a group of folks in texas that tried to warn us about Bush.Don&#8217;t remember the groups name,but its spokeperson came right out and said that if we elect this man to office he will destroy our country in much the same that he tried to destroy Texas.To bad i was the only one watching it seems.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=250212', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Evil</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-245578</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Evil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;bode&quot;.... sheesh. I once again humbly apologize.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;bode&#8221;&#8230;. sheesh. I once again humbly apologize.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=245578', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Evil</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-245576</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Evil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, I left out &quot;not&quot; before &quot;bodes well&quot;, 3rd paragraph, second sentence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, I left out &#8220;not&#8221; before &#8220;bodes well&#8221;, 3rd paragraph, second sentence.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=245576', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Mr. Evil</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-245573</link>
		<dc:creator>Mr. Evil</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 05:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Naaahhhh... say it ain&#039;t so! These are the same guys that said they were going to restore dignity and honesty to the White House. They wouldn&#039;t lie.

How many examples do you neocon super followers need that keep popping up more and more practically on a daily basis of the sham of this administration. Lies on top of lies covering for lies. Incompetence at most levels. Cronyism run amok (see previous sentence). Corruption almost beyond belief: indictments, investigations that go all the way to the White House, lobbyists providing illegal gifts and gratuities. Favoritism: The corporations (mainly the CEO&#039;s and a few top level administrators), special interests and friends all collect massively while the rest of the approximately 270 million of us are being systematically left to scramble. 

I&#039;ll put it this way as a warning to wake up. When what was once the largest and most powerful company on the planet is now being reduced to near bankruptcy like General Motors is experiencing right now it does bode well for the rest of American major manufacturing industry. General Motors is in trouble. This could have as direct impact on our economy as any hurricane ever could. Worldwide ramifications. They are already closing several plants and will be terminating tens of thousands of employees by 2008, a little over 2 years from now. If they declare bankruptcy they will dump the entire pension plan. Guess what that means.... thousands of instant poor people too old and no income. 

If this can happen to General Motors you can damn well bet there are several others teetering right behind them! This is being cause by a tiny fraction of people consumed by their personal greed and need for more power... the CEO&#039;s. Their only contribution to a once proud corporation the world over (GM) has been gross mismanagement and absolutely zero vision for the future. 

Totally un-American, totally unpatrotic and totally disgusting. Wake Up!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Naaahhhh&#8230; say it ain&#8217;t so! These are the same guys that said they were going to restore dignity and honesty to the White House. They wouldn&#8217;t lie.</p>
<p>How many examples do you neocon super followers need that keep popping up more and more practically on a daily basis of the sham of this administration. Lies on top of lies covering for lies. Incompetence at most levels. Cronyism run amok (see previous sentence). Corruption almost beyond belief: indictments, investigations that go all the way to the White House, lobbyists providing illegal gifts and gratuities. Favoritism: The corporations (mainly the CEO&#8217;s and a few top level administrators), special interests and friends all collect massively while the rest of the approximately 270 million of us are being systematically left to scramble. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll put it this way as a warning to wake up. When what was once the largest and most powerful company on the planet is now being reduced to near bankruptcy like General Motors is experiencing right now it does bode well for the rest of American major manufacturing industry. General Motors is in trouble. This could have as direct impact on our economy as any hurricane ever could. Worldwide ramifications. They are already closing several plants and will be terminating tens of thousands of employees by 2008, a little over 2 years from now. If they declare bankruptcy they will dump the entire pension plan. Guess what that means&#8230;. thousands of instant poor people too old and no income. </p>
<p>If this can happen to General Motors you can damn well bet there are several others teetering right behind them! This is being cause by a tiny fraction of people consumed by their personal greed and need for more power&#8230; the CEO&#8217;s. Their only contribution to a once proud corporation the world over (GM) has been gross mismanagement and absolutely zero vision for the future. </p>
<p>Totally un-American, totally unpatrotic and totally disgusting. Wake Up!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=245573', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: idiots</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-243823</link>
		<dc:creator>idiots</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>no proof here my libral friends just conspiracy theories,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>no proof here my libral friends just conspiracy theories,<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=243823', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Gung Ho</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-243471</link>
		<dc:creator>Gung Ho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 07:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So what about the Really Big Lie? And they are getting away with it without anyone noticing, whilst everyone is squabbling over WMD. The beginning of this farce must be recognised for what it is. Planning and using explosives to bring down the WTC, tricking the world into accepting a war supposedly to root out those nasty terrorist. Why is EVERYONE with a few exception ignoring this horror?
http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So what about the Really Big Lie? And they are getting away with it without anyone noticing, whilst everyone is squabbling over WMD. The beginning of this farce must be recognised for what it is. Planning and using explosives to bring down the WTC, tricking the world into accepting a war supposedly to root out those nasty terrorist. Why is EVERYONE with a few exception ignoring this horror?<br />
<a href="http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.physics.byu.edu/research/energy/htm7.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=243471', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith Smith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-243118</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Either way America is screwed. If their is another terrorist attack on American soil who will suffer more and benefit less? You will loose your freedoms, you&#039;ll all be suspect if you question American authority and Bush will ride the billows of smoke and death into high percentage points once again to call for the take-over of the mid-east. Oh yeah, and the draft will set in. 


Muslims in oil nations are just as poor as those in Detroit surrounded by oil money and American corporations and live in tin shack houses of false hopes and dreams. These people have nothing left to loose but the lives of their children to another nazi nightmare. 

Who will suffer from all this, Joe average American or some rich jew that sits back and waits for Christians and Muslims to finish each other off so he can buy up what&#039;s left of America and sell it off to the highest bidder in Asia.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Either way America is screwed. If their is another terrorist attack on American soil who will suffer more and benefit less? You will loose your freedoms, you&#8217;ll all be suspect if you question American authority and Bush will ride the billows of smoke and death into high percentage points once again to call for the take-over of the mid-east. Oh yeah, and the draft will set in. </p>
<p>Muslims in oil nations are just as poor as those in Detroit surrounded by oil money and American corporations and live in tin shack houses of false hopes and dreams. These people have nothing left to loose but the lives of their children to another nazi nightmare. </p>
<p>Who will suffer from all this, Joe average American or some rich jew that sits back and waits for Christians and Muslims to finish each other off so he can buy up what&#8217;s left of America and sell it off to the highest bidder in Asia.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=243118', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: David Hannaford</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-243018</link>
		<dc:creator>David Hannaford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 00:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Rendon Group are only the beginning of this story. They were already in place with an existing network of international media people and post-911 their role was expanded. In Clinton&#039;s time, the CIA was permitted to run journalists in foreign media, but forbidden to influence domestic media covertly, so the place to look is Fox, CBS, CNN, NY Times etc all of which ran massive and expensive pro-war propaganda to a common script. Money must have changed hands, and each time it did, there must have been an agreement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Rendon Group are only the beginning of this story. They were already in place with an existing network of international media people and post-911 their role was expanded. In Clinton&#8217;s time, the CIA was permitted to run journalists in foreign media, but forbidden to influence domestic media covertly, so the place to look is Fox, CBS, CNN, NY Times etc all of which ran massive and expensive pro-war propaganda to a common script. Money must have changed hands, and each time it did, there must have been an agreement.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=243018', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bs article</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-242515</link>
		<dc:creator>bs article</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bamford&#039;s also a bit of crank who can&#039;t keep his facts straight.
IF this was a real article, it would be in the NY times but they wouldn&#039;t touch it with  ten foot pole</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bamford&#8217;s also a bit of crank who can&#8217;t keep his facts straight.<br />
IF this was a real article, it would be in the NY times but they wouldn&#8217;t touch it with  ten foot pole<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=242515', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bs article</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-242494</link>
		<dc:creator>bs article</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*Rendon Group Rebuttal, http://www.rendon.com/letter.php, November 18, 2005</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*Rendon Group Rebuttal, <a href="http://www.rendon.com/letter.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.rendon.com/letter.php</a>, November 18, 2005<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=242494', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: crusader bunnypants</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-241712</link>
		<dc:creator>crusader bunnypants</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hang the liars</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>hang the liars<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=241712', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: bob the nihilist</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-241667</link>
		<dc:creator>bob the nihilist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just for fun get pictures of all of Bush&#039;s minions and stare at them awhile. Mediocrity of evil, no?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just for fun get pictures of all of Bush&#8217;s minions and stare at them awhile. Mediocrity of evil, no?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=241667', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: PunkyAlan</title>
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		<dc:creator>PunkyAlan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t buy the &quot;Bush at odds with the CIA&quot; routine. The Bushes have been a CIA family for years; the CIA didn&#039;t name their new world headquarters after Poppy Bush for nothing.

All part of the disinformation and confusion-mongering so characteristic of the intelligence agency itself, IMHO. Deep cover and special ops don&#039;t walk around all day worrying about the honor and rep of the agency, and the CIA has often taken the bullet (in the public&#039;s perception) to distract from its real actions and intentions elsewhere, IMHO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t buy the &#8220;Bush at odds with the CIA&#8221; routine. The Bushes have been a CIA family for years; the CIA didn&#8217;t name their new world headquarters after Poppy Bush for nothing.</p>
<p>All part of the disinformation and confusion-mongering so characteristic of the intelligence agency itself, IMHO. Deep cover and special ops don&#8217;t walk around all day worrying about the honor and rep of the agency, and the CIA has often taken the bullet (in the public&#8217;s perception) to distract from its real actions and intentions elsewhere, IMHO.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=241603', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: priscianus jr</title>
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		<dc:creator>priscianus jr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Less important than what magazine published this article, is the person who wrote it -- James Bamford. A highly respected author in his field,  Bamford already exposed the role of the Rendon Group a year and a half ago in the book: A Pretext for War : 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America&#039;s Intelligence Agencies,. 

From comments by reviewer Robert D. Steele at amazon.com:

&quot;I know Jim Bamford personally, and consider him to be one of the most capable of researchers and most objective of writers on intelligence matters. His deep personal relationships across the U.S. Intelligence Community make him the best possible reporter.

snip

The book is especially strong on the Rendon Group being used to illegally propagandize American citizens with U.S. taxpayer funds, on the abject failure of George Tenet in revitalizing U.S. clandestine operations, on the failure (treated more kindly) of Mike Hayden to bring the National Security Agency into the 21st Century, and on the very unhealthy merger of the U.S. neoconservatives that captured the White House, and well-funded Zionists in both America and Israel who essentially bought themselves an invasion of Iraq--a remarkable coincidence of interests: Jews paying to invade Iraq, Iranians using Chalabi to feed lies to the neo-cons so they would be deceived into thinking Iraq would be a cake-walk, and Bin Laden never daring to dream the entire U.S. population and all arms of government--including a passive media--would &quot;sleep walk&quot; into what this book suggests is one of the dumbest and most costly strategic errors in the national security history of the USA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Less important than what magazine published this article, is the person who wrote it &#8212; James Bamford. A highly respected author in his field,  Bamford already exposed the role of the Rendon Group a year and a half ago in the book: A Pretext for War : 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America&#8217;s Intelligence Agencies,. </p>
<p>From comments by reviewer Robert D. Steele at amazon.com:</p>
<p>&#8220;I know Jim Bamford personally, and consider him to be one of the most capable of researchers and most objective of writers on intelligence matters. His deep personal relationships across the U.S. Intelligence Community make him the best possible reporter.</p>
<p>snip</p>
<p>The book is especially strong on the Rendon Group being used to illegally propagandize American citizens with U.S. taxpayer funds, on the abject failure of George Tenet in revitalizing U.S. clandestine operations, on the failure (treated more kindly) of Mike Hayden to bring the National Security Agency into the 21st Century, and on the very unhealthy merger of the U.S. neoconservatives that captured the White House, and well-funded Zionists in both America and Israel who essentially bought themselves an invasion of Iraq&#8211;a remarkable coincidence of interests: Jews paying to invade Iraq, Iranians using Chalabi to feed lies to the neo-cons so they would be deceived into thinking Iraq would be a cake-walk, and Bin Laden never daring to dream the entire U.S. population and all arms of government&#8211;including a passive media&#8211;would &#8220;sleep walk&#8221; into what this book suggests is one of the dumbest and most costly strategic errors in the national security history of the USA.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=241385', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Keith Smith</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-240564</link>
		<dc:creator>Keith Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well done!

March 28 2004, Los Angeles Times,

 &quot;The now discredited Iraqi defector code-named  &#039;Curveball,&#039; handed over false information to the Bush administration. Only later, U.S. officials said, did the CIA learn that defector was the brother of one of Chalabi&#039;s top aides and begin to suspect that he might have been coached by Chalabi to provide false information.&quot;    [Greg Miller]

February 19 2004, The Daily Telegraph (UK)

  Mr Chalabi responed;   &quot;We are hero&#039;s in error.
.....As far as we&#039;re concerned we&#039;ve been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important.&quot;

To this very minute, the day Saddam was captured Mr Chalabi arrived in Iraq the man know as the prince of darkness Richard Perle  has been pumping Chalabi on the media spots as the right man for the job.

Yes, we figured it out in Canada just enough not to get into this corporate GM type war to know it was headed for total bunkurroptcy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well done!</p>
<p>March 28 2004, Los Angeles Times,</p>
<p> &#8220;The now discredited Iraqi defector code-named  &#8216;Curveball,&#8217; handed over false information to the Bush administration. Only later, U.S. officials said, did the CIA learn that defector was the brother of one of Chalabi&#8217;s top aides and begin to suspect that he might have been coached by Chalabi to provide false information.&#8221;    [Greg Miller]</p>
<p>February 19 2004, The Daily Telegraph (UK)</p>
<p>  Mr Chalabi responed;   &#8220;We are hero&#8217;s in error.<br />
&#8230;..As far as we&#8217;re concerned we&#8217;ve been entirely successful. That tyrant Saddam is gone and the Americans are in Baghdad. What was said before is not important.&#8221;</p>
<p>To this very minute, the day Saddam was captured Mr Chalabi arrived in Iraq the man know as the prince of darkness Richard Perle  has been pumping Chalabi on the media spots as the right man for the job.</p>
<p>Yes, we figured it out in Canada just enough not to get into this corporate GM type war to know it was headed for total bunkurroptcy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=240564', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Grant</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-240424</link>
		<dc:creator>Grant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So apparently, $311.26/hr. is the going rate for selling ones soul.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So apparently, $311.26/hr. is the going rate for selling ones soul.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=240424', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: skip</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-240403</link>
		<dc:creator>skip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And now, with Sharon in limbo, the Rendon sayanim are flying blind.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And now, with Sharon in limbo, the Rendon sayanim are flying blind.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=240403', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Outernet</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/17/rendon-group/comment-page-2/#comment-240297</link>
		<dc:creator>Outernet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:41:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Off topic: Che-ney answered all his critics today: &quot;it is morally reprehensible (that word has gotten mileage lately) to even think that the president of the United States would fabricate intelligence in order to go to war with Iraq, it is utterly false....&quot; Well, I&#039;ll be damned! I did not realise how wrong we all were! And I for one, will be sending a cheque to Mr Che-ney to compensate for all the lies and innuendos that we, liberals, are maliciously spreading throughout the globe. I am completely floored by his good intentions and I think we should really, really believe the good man that he really, really, truly is. Shame on us for being seduced by the realities of what is actually going on!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Off topic: Che-ney answered all his critics today: &#8220;it is morally reprehensible (that word has gotten mileage lately) to even think that the president of the United States would fabricate intelligence in order to go to war with Iraq, it is utterly false&#8230;.&#8221; Well, I&#8217;ll be damned! I did not realise how wrong we all were! And I for one, will be sending a cheque to Mr Che-ney to compensate for all the lies and innuendos that we, liberals, are maliciously spreading throughout the globe. I am completely floored by his good intentions and I think we should really, really believe the good man that he really, really, truly is. Shame on us for being seduced by the realities of what is actually going on!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=240297', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: makesenseofit</title>
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		<dc:creator>makesenseofit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is the smoking gun of the Iraq invasion. Rendon and his band of merry men. Since the Bush administration is exactly right when they say they did not manipulate facts to justify war ...someone did it for them.. the CIA and FBI were influenced by this and if so this scandal can be the greatest of all time.. greater than Watergate and great enough to put people behind bars if the truth is ever found under the cloak of secrecy throughout this eadministration and those protecting it ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the smoking gun of the Iraq invasion. Rendon and his band of merry men. Since the Bush administration is exactly right when they say they did not manipulate facts to justify war &#8230;someone did it for them.. the CIA and FBI were influenced by this and if so this scandal can be the greatest of all time.. greater than Watergate and great enough to put people behind bars if the truth is ever found under the cloak of secrecy throughout this eadministration and those protecting it &#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=240265', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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