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Sunday, July 17, 2005
Not Only is Karl Rove a Traitor... his story also re-opens an old image problem the White House thought it had solved. Back when George Tenet still had a job, there was a live debate in the U.S. over whether Bush "expected" evidence from the CIA of certain nasty weapons in Iraq. Then, when George Tenet resigned, the party faithful could say, Look, Tenet's leaving -- that's because the CIA made Bush think there were nasty weapons, when really there weren't. Bush didn't pressure the CIA! He got fooled! It was the CIA's fault!
As the SF Chronicle points out,
White House officials were aware of Plame and her husband's potentially damaging charge that Bush was "twisting" intelligence about Iraq's nuclear ambitions well before the episode evolved into Washington's latest scandal. By now we know why: The intelligence was hopelessly twisted.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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