Counterpunch Still Shilling for OCT - Patsystani Blogger Interviews Shenon...

http://counterpunch.org/wajahat02232008.html 

ALI: You mention Zelikow had closer ties with the White House than what was originally disclosed to the public. He had written a report: "National Security Strategy of the United States," published in September 2002. Explain this document and the importance of it concerning Zelikow's "neutrality"?

SHENON: This document sort of turned military doctrine on its head and said that in the future the United States could invade a nation that did not necessarily pose a military threat to this country: it was called a pre-emptive war, or pre-emptive defense doctrine. It was pretty clear to everybody in September 2002 that it was written with Iraq in mind: it would be an intellectual justification for the invasion of Iraq. Now, when it came out in 2002, people didn't know who the author was. We learn 2 years later when the 9-11 Commission was really coming close to the end with its investigation, that Zelikow was the principal author.

When that was found out, some of the staff wondered whether or not Zelikow 's efforts earlier in trying to tie Al Qaeda and Iraq--you know, whether he was motivated there by trying to justify a war he, in some way, set the path to.

ALI: This screams out "conflict of interest." How come nobody else saw this?

SHENON: It sure screams it. I think a lot of the staffers saw the same thing. Certainly, some of the critics of the Commission, then and now, saw the same thing.

wajahatmali@gmail.com in case anyone wants to answer his question about why "no one else saw this..."