Posted on 10/29/2005 2:06:03 PM PDT by advance_copy
Washington (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff is learning one Washington lesson the hard way: Don't do battle with people who run covert operations for a living. The bad blood between the White House and CIA has been known for some time. But the 22-page indictment Friday of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby displays - in black and white - just how nasty relations had become between senior White House officials and the nation's spy chiefs.
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...former CIA official Lee Strickland, who was responsible for all disclosure activities at the CIA as chief of its information review group, said he can't recall a time in his 30 years at the agency when there was so much tension with the White House.
He said the situation highlights problems with the politicization of intelligence. "You want to keep the politics separate from the intelligence," he said.
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Sadly that's a distinction without a difference.
is anyone at DOJ even investigating that?
Novak's loyalty is to his gravy train. Name on of Bush 43's policies he has supported. Novak has been in the Beltway for nearly 50 years, how does he swim so freely in that environment without having some stockpile of secrets?
Back to Powell. go back to all reports of infighting between Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice and Powell. Powell knew he wouldn't be serving a second term. Elementary.
Sometimes I think the entrenched bureaucrats are the ones that call the shots.
They provide the reports to the politicians and political appointees and if the right decisions are not made they subvert the orders or subvert the leaders.
The leaders come and go but the bureaucrats remain.
Didn't Powell recently make a comment about his speech at the UN being the low point of his public life?
Powell = Leaker
Wasn't Powell's chief of staff, Wilkerson, who recently came out about the Iraq war and how the foreign policy was hijacked by Cheney Cabal?
Who died and made you Jim Robinson?
You insult someone you do not know, more than once. You clearly have no idea what the circumstances were when that photo was taken. What do you have against "Karl?"
You seem to have a mighty high opinion of yourself.
She sent her lying creep of a husband to Niger, where he performed NO investigation, and he reported that Iraq had made no efforts to get yellowcake.
That, along with most of the rest of what he said, turned out to be a lie. The Iraqis may not have gotten the yellowcake, but they did try.
Bottom line: Plame, responsible for protecting us from proliferation of WMDs, helped to cover up a serious attempt at that very proliferation.
I don't know who she's working for, but I seriously doubt it's the USofA.
The only way she's a victim is if she sent Joe Joe over to do a real investigation and didn't know what he was really doing.
Thats what I love about this place, it may not always be right but it does make you think. Thank you for giving me a lot to think about.
That is very naiive. Does the word nepotism mean anything to you? The fact that it was his wife that authorized this trip shoudl indicate that there was no valid foreign intelligence reason for it. No, it was purely intended to allow Joseph Wilson to write a guest editorial in the New York Times claiming that there was no Iraqi purchase of of yellow cake uranium, and that he "didn't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies." The whole trip and editorial had nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with domestic partisan politics.
Are you sure his name was Wilkerson? I've been trying to look at a copy or some snips from the speech you refer to all week.
LOL .....
Hey, you heard that poster! No more jokes!!!
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, I googled it right before I posted it because I remembered that speech right after my second posting.
Absolutely. The CIA, FBI, and Justice Departments may be the most important, but there are problems at every other bureaucracy too. The Department of Education should simply be dissolved.
Foggy Bottom has always been pretty dismal, but I agree that Colin Powell didn't even attempt to improve it.
BTTT
The New York Times and New York Post both reported that Official A is Rove, citing persons close to the investigation.
Now they don't have an ax to grind, do they?
The New York Post has no ax to grind. They have always supported and continue to support President Bush and the War on Terror. If it was just the Times, I'd be less inclined to believe it.
He also said he was sent at the request of CIA and State Department.
http://www.politicsoftruth.com/interviews/PBS_Frontline.html
...The CIA called me, and I met out there with a group of analysts from the broader intelligence community on uranium, on Niger and on Iraq. … I met with maybe 10 people from not just the CIA, but also the other parts of the intelligence community. The State Department Intelligence and Research Office was the group of people that were out there as I recall...
Didn't need to. Talked to the State Department. My trip out there, by the way, was not a CIA trip. My travel was reimbursed by the CIA, but I made it very clear before I went out there that I don't do clandestine. I can do discreet, but I don't do clandestine. As a consequence, before I went out, I also briefed the State Department.
Reading the interview, it seems as if they all went out of their way NOT to have a wriiten record of this. Not signing a confidentiality agreement may have been by design.
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