Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Plan to Have CIA Covertly Rig the Iraqi Election - Deemed Bad Idea

Time Magazine reports that the Bush administration had had a plan to use the Central Intelligence Agency to funnel money to candidates it favored in the forthcoming Iraqi elections. The rationale given was that Iran was bankrolling its own candidates. This plan was apparently derailed in part by the intervention of Democratic Minority Leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, who remonstrated with National Security Adviser Condaleeza Rice about it.

The article How Much US Help? from TIME Magazine

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