Disinformation Leading to War: "The Way of the World"

There were two news stories today that open the window slightly on "the way of the world." The first story, from Politico and the book "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism" is from Pulitizer Prize author Ron Suskind. Suskind reports that a high-ranking official in the White House ordered a forged letter to justify going to war with Iraq in 2003. Suskind adds that the US secretly resettled the Iraqi intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, to Jordan and paid him $5 million in order to deceive the world about weapons of mass destruction.

On NPR (8-7-08), Suskind states that he has tape recorded his sources and is ready to appear before any Senate or House hearings about these crimes of disinformation.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93319762

Suskind has also posted a transcript of his interview with a high level CIA contractor Rob Richer.
http://www.ronsuskind.com/thewayoftheworld/transcripts/


The second story: In attempting to find someone to prosecute in the anthrax scare,the Federal Bureau of Investigations coerced a man to provide information on his father, a US Army scientist. The Washington post reports that the FBI offered the man $2.5 million and the sports car of his choice. Although the FBI could not prove the father's role in the anthrax scare, their pressure ended in the scientist's suicide.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/
2008/08/05/ST2008080503796.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93319762