William Safire

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Person.png William Safire   PrabookRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(journalist, political speechwriter)
BornDecember 17, 1929
New York City, US
DiedSeptember 27, 2009 (Age 79)
Rockville, Maryland, US
NationalityUS
ReligionJewish

William Lewis Safire was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.

Craig Spence

Safire regularly attended dinner parties held by Craig Spence, a deep state actor who organized a sexual blackmail ring in Washington DC in the 1980s.[1]

2003 Iraq war

Safire was one of several voices who called for war with Iraq, and predicted a "quick war" and wrote: "Iraqis, cheering their liberators, will lead the Arab world toward democracy."[2] He consistently brought up the point in his Times columns that an Iraqi intelligence agent met with Mohamed Atta, one of the 9/11 attackers, in Prague,[3] which he called an "undisputed fact".

He also incorrectly predicted that "freed scientists" would lead coalition forces to "caches [of weapons of mass destruction] no inspectors could find".[4]


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References

  1. http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf
  2. "Iraqis, cheering their liberators, will lead the Arab world toward democracy"."To Fight Freedom's Fight", The New York Times, January 21, 2002
  3. "Missing Links Found", The New York Times, November 24, 2003
  4. "Jubilant V-I Day", The New York Times, April 10, 2003


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