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My favorite part is:FEITH: The issue here was not ...

2007-02-10T19:16:00.000-05:00

My favorite part is:

FEITH: The issue here was not that we did an analysis. The issue was we criticized the CIA's analysis.

Is he trying to say they avoid analysis of the evidence before they critique others' analysis? And that is valuable . . . how? There is only one way: if they know what conclusions they want to make. Will it ever dawn on them what they've done?

It aggravates me to no end that Blitzer can't do h...

2007-02-10T13:58:00.000-05:00

It aggravates me to no end that Blitzer can't do his damn homework when preparing for this known liar Feith.

Hell if this midwesterner knew Feith was lying during that interview, how can't Blitzer??!

And if Blitzer did know, what is he afraid of? Losing access?

"Did you not take raw intelligence that had been thoroughly checked and debunked by the CIA, dropped the caveats and then "stovepipe" them up to the office of the VP? How can that be considered "analysis" and not adjusting the intel to fit a political agenda for war?"

Is that so damn hard?!? Blitzer can't do a simple Google search to find the same stories Juan was so kind to post?

Of course, Feith is just doing what most in this administration does, pass blame off to someone else. Which is why it was so maddening when Tenet sold his soul - for what reason I really want to know.

It's so sad and disgusting.

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Strange that Feith would rely on Tenet for a sourc...

2007-02-10T13:01:00.000-05:00

Strange that Feith would rely on Tenet for a source....especially after the testimony in the Libby trial shows how Tenet was willing to sell his soul to the administration...

Short version? Tenet has no credibility...he was in on the scam from the beginning.

Faith-biased FeithOf course he's telling falsehood...

2007-02-10T12:57:00.000-05:00

Faith-biased Feith

Of course he's telling falsehoods! When confronted with any immature entity, there has to be some allowance for not having or ignoring the truths of the matters at hand. As we well know, the actions and reactions to the whole Iraq situation has been one fraught with emotionality and gut-based, -wrenched decisions, with very little if anything beyond that to support any rationale call to arms and begin operations. It's almost a Munchausen syndrome wherein the patient becomes convinced of some imagined ailment that demands some corrective action, whether drugs or surgery or whatever.

With Iraq, everything has been imaginary, from the weapons programmes, to the stability of the society, to the welcoming of invaders, to the overall improvement of the situations that were not suppoed to degrade to begin with. Yet, continued operations are necessary with infusions of this or that in order to make everything all better. It must be emphasised that these sorts of people are ILL (I Lewis Libby, being one of them) and should be removed to some undisclosed location for confinement and treatment for their disorders.

Further, noting that these people are immature (besides being ILL), it almost goes without saying that once a lie has been told, it must be reinforced with more that fail the truth tests to the point where nothing can be found to support any of the statements in terms of fact. The only thing that is factual is the fictitiousness of the people and their statements, as well as the expectation that nothing they say or do will ever address the underLYing problem, that of their continued distortion of their words, themselves, their disordered thinking, and their psycho-illogicalities.

The recruitment to work at OSP was especially intr...

2007-02-10T12:43:00.000-05:00

The recruitment to work at OSP was especially intriguing, and I applied 3 separate times. I never even got a rejection notice. Apparently they had plenty of better qualified applicants.
In retrospect, it occurs to me that they would post that notice whenever they had already identified someone they wanted to bring on to the team. So my applications, and those from all the others who didn't know any better, were part of a ruse to falsely indicate that there was a fair, competitive hiring process in compliance with civil service rules. This would constitute one more minor flaunting of regulations by this crowd that considers itself above the law.
What might have been different if the office had actually hired someone like me, who would put US national security interests ahead of the interests of an extremist political party in a different country ? We will never know. They apparently never hired even one patriotic, non-traitor American.

I wonder when it will happen that someone in the M...

2007-02-10T12:14:00.000-05:00

I wonder when it will happen that someone in the MSM will explicitly connect the dots between the pro-Israel corps of government types that have long yearned for removal of various leaders in the Middle East and the folks who were embedded in process of supplying "intelligence" to Bush in support of the invasion of Iraq. Every sentient student of history or politics knows whazzup, but nobody dares broadcast or print it, except on blogs and essays that are ignored or instantly marginalized by the MSM.

The Neocons Were Played by IranThere is ample evid...

2007-02-10T11:30:00.000-05:00

The Neocons Were Played by Iran
There is ample evidence that the INC of Chalabi and Habib (they who brought us "Curveball", nuclear evidence , etc,) duped the US into attacking their enemy, Saddam's Iraq.
Feith, et al, were of course so smart, as they circumvented our intelligence community, that they accepted misinformation from Iran, transmitted top secret plus information to Iran and paid out tens of millions of dollars to the Iranian influenced INC as they were being played by Iran.
Under what I call "Rules of the Playground" it would serve Iran right if the egoistic bullies they lured into Iraq now set their cannons on Iran.
The fact that this administration first decides what it wants to do and then sets out to collect only the data that supports that mission should scare the living crap out of Iran.
It should also scare the living crap out of Congress and spur them to control Bush via the funding mechanism before more distrous adventures are commenced.

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"Iran used Chalabi to dupe U.S., report says"
By Knut Royce, 5.22..04, Newsday

WASHINGTON — The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that for years Iran has used a U.S.-funded arm of Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (INC) to funnel disinformation to the United States and to collect highly sensitive American secrets, according to intelligence sources. "Iranian intelligence has been manipulating the United States through Chalabi ...(and Habib who furnished false info to the US including "Curveball" and top secret plus info to Iran ) ....by furnishing through his Information Collection Program (ICP) information to provoke the United Sates into getting rid of Saddam Hussein," said an intelligence source who was briefed on the conclusions of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

A question.The current spot price for crude is fif...

2007-02-10T07:34:00.000-05:00

A question.
The current spot price for crude is fifty-seven dollars and change. If we accept the premise that Iraq and Afghanstan were essentially "oil wars" and that the cost, to date, is half-a-trillion dollars, what would the real cost of a barrel of crude be if we factored in the cost of the war?

Case Wagenvoord

"I believed George Tenet"I can't believe Georgetow...

2007-02-10T07:14:00.000-05:00

"I believed George Tenet"

I can't believe Georgetown hired this guy