William Safire
William Safire (journalist, political speechwriter) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | December 17, 1929 New York City, US | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | September 27, 2009 (Age 79) Rockville, Maryland, US | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | US | ||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Jewish | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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]
References
- ↑ http://www.futile.work/uploads/1/5/0/1/15012114/power-broker-served-drugs.pdf
- ↑ "Iraqis, cheering their liberators, will lead the Arab world toward democracy"."To Fight Freedom's Fight", The New York Times, January 21, 2002
- ↑ "Missing Links Found", The New York Times, November 24, 2003
- ↑ "Jubilant V-I Day", The New York Times, April 10, 2003