Monday, September 27, 2004
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy...
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Are career CIA people working to undermine Bush?
Perennial front page mouthpiece Robert Novak seems to think so. Novak has become a part of at least one of the stories he covered: the Plame case. Now Novak may know something about the outing of this agent as well.
And the CIA does seem to be unhappy with Bush. Recently they leaked the gloomy intelligence report given to Bush in late July....that Bush has been ignoring in favor of offering up rosy scenarios on Iraq. Now there's discussion of a second report warning that an American-led invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and would result in a deeply divided Iraqi society prone to violent internal conflict.
Bush and his staff/appointees have done a lot to piss off the CIA. The CIA was badmouthed incessantly by the White House after 9/11...and virtually ignored when it came to vetting intelligence in the weeks preceding the Iraq invasion. The Administration let Tenet fall on the sword for the intelligence failures in the lead up to 9/11, as well as the faulty intelligence for Iraq. And the White House is by many accounts the direct cause of the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
On the other hand, the CIA has a lot at stake in regard to Iraq and intelligence surrounding that situation. If Bush's Iraq venture fails, the CIA is in line to take the blame once again. It only makes sense that they'll want to push back.
Bush already has an albatross in Iraq. The CIA may be working to make sure there's at least one more.
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Are career CIA people working to undermine Bush?
Perennial front page mouthpiece Robert Novak seems to think so. Novak has become a part of at least one of the stories he covered: the Plame case. Now Novak may know something about the outing of this agent as well.
And the CIA does seem to be unhappy with Bush. Recently they leaked the gloomy intelligence report given to Bush in late July....that Bush has been ignoring in favor of offering up rosy scenarios on Iraq. Now there's discussion of a second report warning that an American-led invasion of Iraq would increase support for political Islam and would result in a deeply divided Iraqi society prone to violent internal conflict.
Bush and his staff/appointees have done a lot to piss off the CIA. The CIA was badmouthed incessantly by the White House after 9/11...and virtually ignored when it came to vetting intelligence in the weeks preceding the Iraq invasion. The Administration let Tenet fall on the sword for the intelligence failures in the lead up to 9/11, as well as the faulty intelligence for Iraq. And the White House is by many accounts the direct cause of the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
On the other hand, the CIA has a lot at stake in regard to Iraq and intelligence surrounding that situation. If Bush's Iraq venture fails, the CIA is in line to take the blame once again. It only makes sense that they'll want to push back.
Bush already has an albatross in Iraq. The CIA may be working to make sure there's at least one more.
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