If you are seriously interested in figuring out what to believe, and not just looking for a good political argument, it strikes me that it's way too early to reach this conclusion.
I didn't say anything about reaching a conclusion. What I said was this:
"The issue, it seems to me, is that it increasingly seems that intelligence was deliberately cherrypicked, above the level where intelligence is normally gathered and interpreted, to support a politically convenient conclusion."
That refers pretty clearly, I think, to the way in which the pieces are starting to fall into place. I'm personally always inclined to believe that if there's any evidence to suggest that a politician probably lied, the politician probably lied. That's a prejudice, I admit, but it's a prejudice built on several decades of observing politicians.
Of course it's too early to reach conclusions, but the currently available information seems to be pointing in a certain direction. As I've said before, all the administration has to do to head off that conclusion is to release the information on which their conclusions and allegations were based. Why do you suppose they won't do that? |
