The title of this NPR feature (“Ron Suskind Alleges War Fought On False Premises”) is pretty lame. It’s old news. The news is that he has something else. There are very few who will read this, or listen to NPR, that don’t already assume this. The important thing here is the specifics, that here is YET ANOTHER bit of evidence to throw into the case.
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Ron Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for reporting on honors students in inner-city schools.
Read the prologue of ‘The Way of the World.’
Fresh Air from WHYY, August 7, 2008 · Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind says the Bush administration buried critical information in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
In his new book, The Way of the World, Suskind writes about a secret meeting in early 2003 in which intelligence officials were told by Iraq’s intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush, that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. According to his book, the Bush administration then buried the report.
Suskind also alleges that the White House forged a letter from Habbush that linked Iraq to the attacks on Sept. 11. However, two of Suskind’s sources now deny that a fake document was produced.
Suskind is the author of The One Percent Doctrine and A Hope in the Unseen. Previously, he worked as the senior national affairs writer for The Wall Street Journal.
