[MonroeDNA]

Thanks, and understood. :)

Just stoopid me, hating to see two very bright guys get into a dog fight. Hope I don't get bit too bad.

Bottom line is that someone in the CIA is a bigtime culprit, if I read the green tea leaves right.

[William McKinley]

My tone was the problem. I sent a freepmail apology.

[No Truce With Kings]

"Bottom line is that someone in the CIA is a bigtime culprit, if I read the green tea leaves right."

I don't think so. The story surfaced when a purported "CIA briefer" claimed on the record that "Bush knew the CIA had doubts about the uranium story" at the briefings leading up to the SOTU address. This is the guy that William McKinley uncovered as a fraud. Then Wilson chimes in with his take that his incompetent bungling on a mission to corraborate the yellowcake story was proof of the phony CIA briefer's claims. As near as I can tell -- and if someone could correct me if I am wrong, please do -- the CIA is blameless in this. They did their job in a credible manner.

This is the perfect screw, because an innocent party (in this case the CIA) is left holding the bag when the game is over. Not that the CIA has not done things that should be criticized in the past. Rather, I cannot see what the CIA or Tenet did in this case that is worth condemnation.