And why are they talking so freely to the New York Times about "highly classified" reports from the CIA? And "still-secret parts" of the Senate Intelligence Committee report?
Would these "intelligence officials" be the same as those who have shared "secrets" with the likes of the Times, Post and Newsday in the past? Would they happen to be associates of Mr. Ambassador and Ms. Secret Agent?
I smell rodents (and that would be with an apostrophe and a capital R).
Someone, CIA, State, in heavy "nuance" mode.
The strongest White House assertions of ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda that involved illicit weapons were made beginning in October 2002, when Mr. Bush said in a speech in Cincinnati that "we've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases."
Again, like with the Niger Uranium, pick a singular statement in a speech, usually the weakest claim, and attack it.
Wilson failed in his Niger story, now this is floating as "Bush Lied" du jour.
update:
One of the officials leaking about Zubaydah was a guy named Kiriakou... he wass blabbling to NY Times reporter[s] and the NY Times reporter was passing the information to the terrorists’ defense team.
Kiriakou’s wife had to resignher spot at the CIA after he was charged and her position there was as an analyst of Iran.