Dossier: "Ex-Israeli Commando Tries to Save George W. Bush"

Enjoy the nauseating details .... Laura Rosen writes in MoJo, here

"....An old-school, Harvard-trained Arabist, [Whitley] Bruner had been to a lot of meetings like this—some mundane, some of greater consequence....As Bruner took a seat in Rogers' office, he noticed a man who "radiated clandestinity," he recalls, with close-cropped hair and military bearing. They shook hands, and "He broke every bone in my hand. When I heard his Israeli accent, it was not hard to guess his background...."

Even as ex-Israeli commandos turned security experts go, Bruner thought, this one seemed unusually well connected—his business partner was former Mossad head Danny Yatom.....

Michaels had a different proposition for the former CIA officer—one, he suggested, that could make the assembled men a handsome commission and even help President George W. Bush get reelected. He had a well-placed Iraqi source—a former officer in an Iraqi military psychological operations unit, he said—who had gathered hundreds of pages of contracts, maps, and photographs documenting meetings between Iraqi and Ukrainian officials. The information, Michaels said, would prove that Iraq had pursued a covert chemical weapons program. ......

Michaels wanted Bruner to set up a meeting for him and the Iraqi source with the CIA. To turn over the whole dossier, he wanted $1 million......... But, as Bruner puts it, "Everyone was aware that the Americans were sufficiently desperate and might pay big money for something not true." .......It didn't go very well. The CIA wasn't interested in the dossier.......

....in 2004, Michaels brought several dozen Israeli ex-security officials as well as bomb-sniffing dogs, secure communications equipment, and other military gear into a camp in northern Iraq......The Israeli presence in Kurdistan even blipped on the radar of US intelligence agencies, which in 2004 apparently got reports that Iranian agents planned to target Israeli and US personnel operating in northern Iraq....

Yatom, he said, claimed to be working with Michaels in partnership with the former head of the CIA, James Woolsey, and former FBI chief Louis Freeh. Could this be true? I decided to ask the ex-Mossad chief himself......

In the past two years, Michaels has pursued business opportunities in Africa, Morocco, Serbia, and, according to one American associate, post-US-sanctions Libya..."