“There was no such order from the White House to me nor, *to the best of my knowledge*, was anyone from CIA ever involved in any such effort.”
Interesting partial denial. Either he knows the letter is genuine, or he has carefully answered this question without saying so.
CYA if you think about it how much could have gone on without him knowing every little detail.
Him saying that is probably SOP to every answer he gives when dealing with his subordinates after all the crap they pulled behind everyone’s backs for political reasons.
Using the term “to the best of my knowledge” is simply prudent and is SOP in politics today.
That’s a strong a denial as any former head of a 10,000 person organization full of secretive people including operatives for the Demagogue Party can make.
After Plamegate, especially, no one can assert categorically that there were not people in the CIA fabricating documents to make the WH look bad.
If there is anything to this Suskind drivel, which I seriously doubt there is, it would have to do with another set-up operation against the WH, ala the “forged documents” pertaining to Niger uranium that came from Italy.