In keeping with trying to feature dedicated muckrakers and investigators, today, along with Guerilla News Network, I salute Seymour Hersh, whose latest New Yorker article claims that unhappy CIA officials greased the yellowcake information into the State of the Union address to embarrass Bush.
Which would go a long way to explain why the administration outed Valerie Plame and isn't concerned about finding the leaker.
On top of the FBI-CIA conflicts, State Department vs. Pentagon, Congress vs. White House - just makes me feel so reassured and secure, knowing all the important national security departments of government work together like a well-oiled machine.
Josh Marshall quotes Hersh's article...
By early March, 2002, a former White House official told me, it was understood by many in the White House that the President had decided, in his own mind, to go to war. The undeclared decision had a devastating impact on the continuing struggle against terrorism. The Bush Administration took many intelligence operations that had been aimed at Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups around the world and redirected them to the Persian Gulf. Linguists and special operatives were abruptly reassigned, and several ongoing anti-terrorism intelligence programs were curtailed.
....and comments: "Great call".
A bunch of narrow-minded, crack-headed idiots trying to get back at each other. While the rest of the world pays dearly.
I'm still waiting for a divinely inspired - or otherwise - solution.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
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