MSNBC First Read:
As NBC’s David Gregory recounted on TODAY, Suskind reports that in early 2003, in secret meetings with British intelligence, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief Tahir Jahil Habbush revealed that Iraq DID NOT have weapons of mass destruction, and that information was passed on to the CIA.
The most explosive charge, Gregory says: “In order to bolster the connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq, the White House ordered the CIA to write a fake letter from the Iraqi intelligence chief Habbush, claiming that 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta trained in Iraq prior to September 11th.” The White House has pushed back hard against Suskind, who has written previous critical accounts of the Bush White House. "Ron Suskind makes a living from gutter journalism. He is about selling books and making wild allegations that no one can verify, including the numerous bipartisan commissions that have reported on pre-war intelligence," White House spokesman Tony Fratto told Politico.
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