[piasa]

I see a clandestine war going on but it's far bigger than just the CIA, the White House, and the smattering of whiny staffers who have been cut out of the loop.
This is backed by foreigners, too.

[Shermy]

I see a clandestine war going on but it's far bigger than just the CIA, the White House, and the smattering of whiny staffers who have been cut out of the loop. This is backed by foreigners, too.

Huh? You mean since 9/11 the succession of "leaks" about anything to do with Iraq, always dismissing any danger, doubting any connection, underestimating anything done by Saddam, even going so far as to plant and out and out lie in the New York Times about Vaclav Havel denyning the Prague-Atta meeting, all this wasn't the mere creation of a cabal of some well -meaning, peace loving "senior intelligence officials" but orchestrated and directed by a foreign intelligence agency that has penetrated Washington -say, France or Russia or Saudi - whose couintry or countries had much money to lose if Saddam was overthrown?

Hmmm...interesting idea...