Exactly! And this could get even uglier since if it is true, there is the potential that someone might have misled the French about the nature of these flights. The media is working full-time to find any reason to discredit this administration...even if it means jeorpardizing the war effort.
Just listening to the two blow-hard journalist professors on OReilly's show last night indicated how desperate these people are to cripple Bush at any cost. They found nothing wrong with idea of releasing intel to the American people under the premise that it was our right to know so we could form an educated opinion...regardless of its reprecussions.
Of course, when it comes to Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, they don't hold to that same standard...even though her position in that affair was extremely relevant so that the American people could make an informed opinion on the issue. These people are the biggest hypocrites around.
"Exactly! And this could get even uglier since if it is true, there is the potential that someone might have misled the French about the nature of these flights."
No one misled anyone and this leak shouldn't suprise anyone when the leak of a supposed "secret" joint French/USA anti-terror base in Paris was made some months ago.
The French AND the CIA knew exactly what those flights were doing since the French have some of the harshes anti-terror laws, put in place by one of the toughest anti-terror judges around, Jean Louis Bruguiere, which gives them(the French) loopways to get away with things like this, even if they don't admit it in public. What goes on behind close doors is a different matter.
Plus there is that Paris-based "secretive" alliance task force called "Alliance Base" which is multinational and based out of France - don't know how "secretive" it still is since it made the news - but France was the only country after 9/11 that such a facility could be put in place because of their anti-terror laws. I wouldn't be suprised if this whole incident was related to the Alliance Base.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050703/news_1n3cia.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/02/AR2005070201361_pf.html