Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
06SAOPAULO501
2006-05-10 18:38:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Consulate Sao Paulo
Cable title:
MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, RUMSFELD; SAO PAULO
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UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000501
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, RUMSFELD; SAO PAULO
"Intelligence and Faith"
Liberal Folha de S. Paulo columnist Carlos Heitor Cony wrote (5/10):
"In a lecture he delivered last week, US Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld was accused of having lied to the American people and to
the world about the weapons of mass destruction that Iraq would be
supposedly producing. The new fact was Rumsfeld's answer: he did not
lie. He said he believed in good faith the information the US
intelligence services provided to the Bush administration.... If the
Bush administration and its secretary of Defense have good faith,
the world has much to fear in regards to the US intelligence
services, which apparently do not have any. Any nation can become
dependent on Washington's intelligence agents and, of course, of the
USG's faith in the quality of that intelligence. It is hard to think
what the US will do with Iran, a nation that trampled the
intelligence of both the CIA and the Pentagon and announced that it
is developing its nuclear program independently. Occasionally the
Americans claim to believe in good faith that Brazil will be unable
to preserve the Amazon forest. Brazil does not constitute any
potential nuclear threat, but a significant harm to the planet's
ecology. The same government that refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol
is, in good faith concerned with our trees and our wild animals. If
the US intelligence services conclude that we represent a risk for
the world, the Bush administration will in good faith make decisions
to save Humanity from the Brazilian threat."
McMullen
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, RUMSFELD; SAO PAULO
"Intelligence and Faith"
Liberal Folha de S. Paulo columnist Carlos Heitor Cony wrote (5/10):
"In a lecture he delivered last week, US Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld was accused of having lied to the American people and to
the world about the weapons of mass destruction that Iraq would be
supposedly producing. The new fact was Rumsfeld's answer: he did not
lie. He said he believed in good faith the information the US
intelligence services provided to the Bush administration.... If the
Bush administration and its secretary of Defense have good faith,
the world has much to fear in regards to the US intelligence
services, which apparently do not have any. Any nation can become
dependent on Washington's intelligence agents and, of course, of the
USG's faith in the quality of that intelligence. It is hard to think
what the US will do with Iran, a nation that trampled the
intelligence of both the CIA and the Pentagon and announced that it
is developing its nuclear program independently. Occasionally the
Americans claim to believe in good faith that Brazil will be unable
to preserve the Amazon forest. Brazil does not constitute any
potential nuclear threat, but a significant harm to the planet's
ecology. The same government that refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol
is, in good faith concerned with our trees and our wild animals. If
the US intelligence services conclude that we represent a risk for
the world, the Bush administration will in good faith make decisions
to save Humanity from the Brazilian threat."
McMullen