Today the Intelligence Summit released transcripts from the Saddam tapes on the intelligencesummit.org website. There are some interesting revelations in the MS PowerPoint presentation they have posted. The translation is indeed different than the one provided by ABC News. The matter of what exactly is said on those tapes will be struggled over by expert linguists and I won't try to debate that issue. There are a few things that that we can immediately conclude from the presentation. The translations start with a number such as: ISGC—2003—M0003997 The ISG stands for the Iraq Survey Group. The '2003' stands for the year that the media was labeled, usually shortly after capture. The 'M' stands for media section. This is the name given to the section I worked in. It handled audio and visual media. The number is randomly assigned. I believe the 'C' stands for coalition, but I could be wrong. The main conclusion is that these are authentic and tapes from the Harmony database....(Read Full Post)