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07/24/2003 Archived Entry: "This is what I've been sayin'."
This is what I've been sayin'.
Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo has some extremely interesting stuff up about the feud between the NSC and CIA - and it supports my 'CIA will discredit Bush' theory.
Until or unless the President steps in to provide leadership, the long-awaited showdown between the "neoconservatives" and the "pragmatists" will soon reach crisis proportions…this, due to CIA director George Tenet's extraordinary decision to name the President's staffers responsible for misleading, or false, pre-Iraq war intel, Administration sources confirm today. ...and the war has just begun, intelligence community sources warn. The Iraq/Niger debacle is but one of "a whole series of stories which are ready to break", a source told us today, adding, "I've never seen such hostility and disdain as now being expressed between the White House and the CIA. Never…"
As we reported on July 17, Tenet's lengthy, closed Capitol Hill testimony "outed" not just NSC non-proliferation staffer Bob Joseph, but also Deputy National Security Advisor Steve Hadley, and, by implication, Condi Rice, and Vice President Cheney, if not Bush himself.
-- yesterday, Hadley performed a virtual repeat of Tenet's highly qualified "taking responsibility" pose by making it clear that if he has to take a fall, then Ms. Rice needs to explain why she didn't read the memos he gave her.
As one Administration source put it, privately, today: "Between Tenet and Hadley, Condi now has the choice of saying she's a fool, or a liar…if not both. Bottom line is she failed to protect the President…look at all this lame stuff about him not being a 'fact checker'. It's just incredible."
-- even before last week, a source close to the White House told us, "the President now sees that he's exposed on the intel problems. And he now sees who's been manipulating him, and he's not happy about it. No president likes to be embarrassed, but this stuff goes to the heart of all the reservations, pre-9/11, about his intelligence, his attention span, and his interest in foreign affairs."
The long knives are out at the CIA - and guess who they're out for... avert your gaze, kids. This could get ugly.
Replies: 4 people speak up
Avert my gaze? Hell, no! I'm going to get some popcorn...
Posted by (: Tom :) @ 07/24/2003 07:02 AM NY
Tom, grab one for me. Extra butter, please. :)
Posted by lonestar @ 07/24/2003 08:42 AM NY
This is even better than "The Shining."
Redrum...redrum...redrum...
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 07/24/2003 11:57 AM NY
i can hear bush senior now, "no Georgie, no, dont ever fuck with the CIA," after all, theyve taken down bigger men than him. of all the groups in this country why would you chose to pick a fight with the CIA, the overthrow countries and murder people for a living. i would rather piss off the entire US Military than the CIA. all i can say is beware the Ides of March (or at this rate maybe september) this is going to be a really beautifull train wreck to watch, good bye approval ratings, hello war crimes tribunal.
Posted by justin @ 07/24/2003 04:34 PM NY
