[Fedora]

There is just no end to Walter "Pinko"'s connections--here is his glowing recommendation of Anthony Lake when Lake was nominated for CIA Director:

"Intelligence Agency Should Like the Cut of Lake's Cloak", By Walter Pincus and Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, December 6, 1996; Page A27

BTW, here is something interesting Pincus mentions about Lake:

One advantage Lake will have is the help of CIA deputy director George J. Tenet, a former NSC assistant of Lake's who is expected to remain in the job and has spent most of his time at the CIA with the clandestine operatives. Another asset Lake brings to the job is loyalty to the president and a history with Clinton that goes back to his days as a senior foreign policy adviser to the 1992 presidential campaign. . .In the early days of the Clinton administration, when then-Director Woolsey had trouble getting to see the president, senior CIA officials labeled Lake the roadblock, calling him a State Department figure who did not trust the agency's analysis.

[piasa]

As I understand it the Cuban spy Ana Belen Montes was supposed to transfer over to Tenet's office - had she not been arrested just after 9/11 after being under investigation for months. She wasn't CIA, but at least one story mentions that.

[piasa]

I'll have to look back and see if Pincus' wrote that about Montes or if it came from somewhere else.

[piasa]

I just can't picture Pincus telling the truth - at least not giving up anything damaging to his own worldview. I wouls expect him to try to defame key people whenever possible.