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Good morning, Ernest.
Hate to think of a Shadow Government....too conspiratorial... but career holdovers from previous administrations in State, the CIA, Justice and other bureaucracies have been causing the Bush administration problems since the beginning. We know some of their names and discover new ones regularly; Wilson, Plame, Berger the Archivist and lately the authors of this NIE.

'A new broom sweeps clean' is a little ditty the GWB ignored and now he has a mess in his house.

(Out the door in 5.)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Putting some things together on this thread...Stratfor has my head spinning....

Abolish the CIA ( Destroying the interrogation tapes amounts to mutiny and treason. -
Slate ^ | Monday, Dec. 10, 2007, at 12:09 PM ET | By Christopher Hitchens

I know it is Hitchens...but go further on the thread...am adding more...got to find the Blog of Friedman for a VERY DIFFERENT opinion of why the NIE was revealed....heavy details....