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Lunedì prossimo esce negli Stati uniti "State of denial" di Bob Woodward, quello che tirò fuori lo scandalo del Watergate. Qui c'è un'interessante recensione del New York Times secondo la quale il libro dice cose abbastanza preoccupanti. Innanzitutto descrivendo alcune superficialità con cui è stata affrontata la guerra in Iraq, e fin qui qualcuno potrebbe invocare il diritto di sbagliare, anche se quando hai i destini del mondo in mano e affronti le cose come dice Woodward, un qualche diritto ad avere paura i sudditi ce lo potranno anche avere, o no? Poi Woodward scrive anche che "...in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Tenet believed that Mr. Rumsfeld was impeding the effort to develop a coherent strategy to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Mr. Rumsfeld questioned the electronic signals from terrorism suspects that the National Security Agency had been intercepting, wondering whether they might be part of an elaborate deception plan by Al Qaeda" e che "The fruitless search for unconventional weapons caused tension between Vice President Cheney’s office, the C.I.A. and officials in Iraq. Mr. Woodward wrote that Mr. Kay, the chief weapons inspector in Iraq, e-mailed top C.I.A. officials directly in the summer of 2003 with his most important early findings. At one point, when Mr. Kay warned that it was possible the Iraqis might have had the capability to make such weapons but did not actually produce them, waiting instead until they were needed, the book says he was told by John McLaughlin, the C.I.A.’s deputy director: “Don’t tell anyone this. This could be upsetting. Be very careful. We can’t let this out until we’re sure.”
New York Times