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In addition, an alleged meeting between an Iraqi intelligence officer and a leader of the 9/11 attacks, Mohamed Atta, never took place.

CIA rather fiercely maintains that the meeting never took place, each time the Czechs reported that the meeting did occur, within an hour the CIA would race to the phones to "leak" to the press that it was a lie, that it had never happened. The president of the Czech Republic himself came out and repeated it, a couple of times, and again CIA falls all over itself to "leak" within minutes that it never happened.

So that has become the commonly accepted story, at least outside Czech intel circles. Never happened.

Of course, when you dig into it, what you find is that CIA's claim that it "never happened" becomes considerably weaker. In the fine print, you find that they merely "can't confirm it". It never happened, because they can't confirm it, and they can't confirm it because they didn't have anyone on the scene.

Thats it. Thats the basis of the denial.

Its the old bogus sophomore philosophy conundrum, if the tree falls in the forest, with only the loggers there to see it, CIA can't confirm it, so the tree is still standing, as far as we can tell.

Its the old bogus sophomore philosophy conundrum, if the tree falls in the forest, with only the loggers there to see it, CIA can't confirm it, so the tree is still standing, as far as we can tell.

Bingo. And the Plame/Wilson/Niger thing involves similar "logic". I wish I understood what their freakin problem is. There is a real untold story in all this which presumably involves ass-covering and turf-protecting on a grand scale at CIA.

If I remember CIA’s reasoning, Atta’s cell phone was in use during his trip to the Czech Republic. According to the CIA that was proof that Atta never left the States. It never occurred to the CIA that Atta might not have taken his cell phone with him to Europe.

But what bothers me the most, why is the CIA against US interests? The Plame/Wilson Affair concerns me greatly. Why did Tennant demand an investigation? Why didn’t the Republican Senate and House get to the bottom of the CIA corruption when they had the opportunity? I cannot get around the fact that the CIA committed treason against the WH during a time of war. It is appalling, but mostly is scares the heck out of me.