Great Reads: The New Ron Suskind Book

Out today from Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind is "The Way of the World," his latest and most damaging chronicle of the almost inconceivable behavior of the Bush administration in carrying out their lawless version of the war on terror. Suskind---like Sy Hersh---has exceptional high level sources, and here are a couple of his revelations as reported by Mike Allen in Politico:

"A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.

Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”

I read Suskind's book about Paul O'Neill's firing as Treasury Secretary because he dared show indepedent judgment and "The One Percent Doctrine," based on Dick Cheney's honest-to-God belief that the U.S. is entitled to take military action against any country which presents even a one-percent possibility of hostile action against the U.S. He is one of our truly great investigative journalists.