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To: eyespysomething

Oh, brother. It just never stops, does it? It almost scares me just what lengths they will go to lie and undermine the government.


50 posted on 04/22/2006 7:34:03 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Peach
This has been going on for some time. I dug this November 30, 2005 article up from The Daily Standard: Leaking At All Costs: What the CIA is willing to do to hurt the Bush administration.

"THE CIA'S WAR against the Bush administration is one of the great untold stories of the past three years. It is, perhaps, the agency's most successful covert action of recent times. The CIA has used its budget to fund criticism of the administration by former Democratic officeholders. The agency allowed an employee, Michael Scheuer, to publish and promote a book containing classified information, as long as, in Scheuer's words, "the book was being used to bash the president." However, the agency's preferred weapon has been the leak. In one leak after another, generally to the New York Times or the Washington Post, CIA officials have sought to undermine America's foreign policy. Usually this is done by leaking reports or memos critical of administration policies or skeptical of their prospects. Through it all, our principal news outlets, which share the agency's agenda and profit from its torrent of leaks, have maintained a discreet silence about what should be a major scandal."

81 posted on 04/22/2006 7:57:14 AM PDT by kabar
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