Posted on 11/03/2005 11:36:34 AM PST by shhrubbery!
[snip]...It is not surprising that your White House distrusts and/or despises the media, the CIA, the State Department's career officers, the United Nations and a host of other institutions that you could not control...People in those institutions were out to defy and/or get you.
But you and yours helped them accomplish the mission. One lesson available in this story is that amateurs are no match for the CIA in disinformation campaigns. The spies are far better at operating in the shadows than you politicians will ever be. They have a license to dissemble.
The hidden management of the criminal justice process and the news media practiced by spooks in Wilson-Rove-Libbygate is nothing short of brilliant. So you were right to fear the agency...
Fear probably caused you to keep the Clinton-appointed leadership in place at the CIA long after some of its top operatives mounted a rebellion against the White House, in part to shift attention from their failures to yours. I know that George Tenet charmed you, and the rest of us. That's what spies and spymasters do, sir. You should have been taking that into account...
...After Wilson's slanted account of his mission to Niger provoked a small hubbub over your 16-word reference to Iraq's seeking uranium, Britain reiterated repeatedly to the United States that it stood by its reporting on that topic -- which was not based in any way on the much-ballyhooed forgeries from Italy...
...Telling the public that there was an independent stream of intelligence, with all the problems and counterattacks it would have triggered from the opposition leakers, would have been better for you than aides' taking it on themselves to plant stealthy suggestions of nepotism at the CIA...[excerpts -- all emphasis added by me -- shhrub]
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oh, I'll bet he was working on a book...his ego is so big, I'm sure he thought (mistakenly) people would be interested. And then insert the only chapter people are really interested in at the beginning of the book.
"To me it reads like a typical, liberal anti-Bush tyrade. He throws in a few juicy tidbits about the cia you wouldn't expect, but overall the article is just another hit piece on the Bush Administration."
Yes! The op-ed is "blaming the victim"?!!!
Yah, I agree there's a lot going on under the surface. Remember, W is always at least 5 steps ahead of the opposition.
So when did she fess up to the CIA that she had outed herself to Joe IN BED no less or did Joe & Valerie keep that a secret,too. Did that stun the CIA??
The scenario might explain this sentence: "She was in the process of being declassified in the SPRING of 2003".....The sentce ends abruptly. Something is missing!!
"Mr. Hoagland is, and always has been an ass."
Yes, and let's not forget, a liberal one. I think- just because his intent IS muddy- he is sitting on the fence, but felt pressured to address this stuff. He's like those
paragons of muddled thinking, Al Franken and Molly Ivins, calling someone a horrible name, implying they did something terrible, then, called on it, claiming it was all a joke. Yeah, right.
I think the fact that it was an op-ed indicates the Ed'l Board wasn't crazy about this. The WashP has been lurching rightwards for a while. I know, I know. Two steps forward, one step back.
"The CIA did NOT attempt this allll by themselves. Somebody had to initiate this and have the ability to give political cover and who better than elected members of Congress ..."
I read that the painfully inarticulate John Conyers originally called for a Special Counsel investigation, so the DOJ got Fitz.
"Yep. He piled more lies on that steaming pile he's built up."
Oh, Freeessshh! (pronounced, "fraish!")
"None Dare Call It Treason"<(•¿•)>
later
Genefromjersey should post his ideas here!
Wow! This is stunning. If pigs aren't flying .. they must be warming up in the hangar.
Rush is going to have a field day with this tomorrow - I can already hear it.
Good post, but I'm confused....
(I don't get any of my news from newspapers and I certainly don't watch network news, lol.)
Are you saying that out in the world of the dinosaur "mainstream" liberal press this is the first time they have acknowledged that Wilson's trip to Niger was part of a rogue CIA operation to discredit the White House? Something we've known for well over a year? Thanks.
Why on earth would Bush even consider letting scumbags from the freaking State Department onto the grounds of the White House?? That's just asking for trouble.
Seems to me that the CIA has been in a lot things to discredit the current admin. Who was responsible for the leakage of all the Abu prison photos just before the election?
Possibly a payback for the Military starting its own info gathering network(Able/Danger)to overcome the Clinton/Gorelick obstructions. Remember the Military GOT the Chinese embassy in Kosovo (insert big smiley).
And the MSM lapped it up.
Ping
Washington Post, this is good and hope more will start speaking out!
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