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Although I didn't focus on that angle, you are right in that there is at least one (if not several) shadowy CIA offical who anonymously pops up in many of the articles about the Iraq-Niger connection and Wilson. In my opinion, the President and the nation have not been well-served by the CIA under Tenet. I mean look at the glaring CIA failures:

It was and remains their responsibility to get Osama bin Laden. It was Tenet who caused the President to pull the trigger on the Iraq invasion early, because Tenet claimed he knew exactly where Saddam Hussein was. That proved wrong. He did it again a couple of weeks into the war, and again was wrong. CIA still doesn't know where Hussein is. Then there's the whole WMD question. None have been found. Why? Were we being suckered all these years? If so, by whom? Supposedly, CIA has been monitoring Iraq's WMD program for years, so why didn't they have a far better handle on the matter before we went in? Frankly, while I think President Bush's famously deep loyalty is admirable, I think it's misplaced in Tenet's case. He should have been fired long ago.

So many questions. So few answers. To me, if it weren't for the Dems screaming for a special counsel, the Wilson matter would be a sideshow. I think something is deeply rotten at CIA and I wish I had the time and resources to look into the matter in depth.

Great piece of research and excellent presentation. All of which leads you, and many of us likely, to this conclusion amongst others:

I think something is deeply rotten at CIA and I wish I had the time and resources to look into the matter in depth.

Could it be, for lack of a better term, social engineering on a global scale? Seems to work here at home. Fact is, none of us know exactly what this agency does, really. And can we rely upon our surrogates in D.C. to watch the henhouse? It's possible this agency is so good at flim flam that our congresscritters don't even know what they're up to.

Thanks for the ping to this terrific piece Mom.

FGS