From: David.Condon@bbs.oit.unc.edu (David Condon)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.politics.bush
Subject: Re: White House whistle-blower
Date: 22 Aug 92 03:25:49 GMT
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In article <1992Aug21.130337.641@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> f_gautjw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
>In article <25628@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, sichase@csa3.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes:
>> In article <1992Aug18.073847.194@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy) writes...
>>>In article <1992Aug18.044153.2009@samba.oit.unc.edu> David.Condon@bbs.oit.unc.edu (David Condon) writes:
>>>>Does anybody have any ideas as to who the unnamed "high White House official"
>>>>was who tipped off the New York Times about Bush's plans for Iraq?
>>> 
>>>It was a planned leak by Bush and Baker...through some subordinate...
>>>a little disinformation...a successful convention is too important
>>>to Bush's reelection chances to bomb Baghdad during it.
>> 
>> On the other hand, the inspection team *was* scheduled to inspect a building
>> to which they knew Saddam Hussein had sworn to not allow them access.  They
>> changed plans after the leak ruined their element of surprise.  Certainly
>> the convention was too important for Bush to allow such an inspection to 
>> precipitate a humiliating stand-off for the U.S. during the convention.
>> 
>> I figure that either he really planned military action (he did promise to
>> use any means necessary to get reelected) or he planted the leak to force
>> the team to change their plans, thus avoiding the stand-off.
>> 
>> -Scott
>
>	Has anybody else considered this possibility or am I the only one
>paranoid on this subject?  Why the Iraqi Ag Ministry?  Were there perhaps
>some documents expected to be found there that would relate to the Atlanta
>Branch of the Bank of Lavaro scandal that Henry Gonzales is uncovering
>that involves ag loans to Iraq that may have been used for arms?  Could
>incriminating evidence be found there?  Why did Saddam give in when the
>US was pulled off of the inspection team?

Believe it or not, I wondered about that too. What are the other 
possibilities as to why the Agriculture Ministry became such a
cause celebre? The Iraqis had cleverly used an innocent-seeming government
body to secrete all their hot stuff on nukes? Eminently plausible. So how
did the U.N. know to search that particular building? Some confidential
source in the Iraqi government? That guy would have to spend a lot of time
looking over his shoulder these days. But the U.N. doesn't have an
intelligence agency cultivating spies, does it? But we can all name at
least one superpower that does. And if we postulate some kind of tip-off
about the Ag ministry, how did they know that this wasn't just some sort
of misdirection while the Iraqis were shredding files at some building
across town? There's something about this thing that just doesn't add up.
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