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Re: Waas: Bush Told Cheney to Discredit Joseph Wil (none / 0) (#14)
by Strick on Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 05:23:27 AM EST
Amazing how people read what they want to into things like this. The "information" referred to in all this was what the NIE said about Iraq, not Plame's identity. Bush had every reason to want to get that information out given the false assumptions that drove Wilson's op-ed piece in the times. How is it in any way wrong to provide information to the public on how and why pubic policy was made, particularly after an accusation was made that had no basis in fact?* As to the "leak", it's intellectually dishonest to call an authorized disclosure of information a leak, particularly when the information from the NIE was in the process of being declassfied and was made available to the public at large only 12 days later. The whole thing on the disclosure was a tempest in a teapot. Of course if the times had printed what actually happened, VP Cheney authorizes giving their reporter a scoop, they wouldn't have sold any papers, would they? *Read Wilson's piece again. It all falls apart once it's clear that his main point, if they ignored his report, they were fiddling the intelligence, is based on a false assumption. No one thought his report worth reporting up the chain, much less basing any policy upon. That's clear in ever examination of what the State Department thought of the trip (a complete waste of time from the get go) or what the CIA did when they got the verbal report (spiked it for not contributing any value).

Waas: Bush Told Cheney to Discredit Joseph Wilson | 21 comments (21 topical)

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