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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (117560)	10/24/2003 4:24:14 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Oh, there's no doubt the CIA has problems. But failing to deliver the goods the neocons want is not very high on the list. In fact, in terms of delivering reliable intelligence, failing to make up stuff for the neocons seems to be a virtue. Missing the collapse of the Soviet Union is of course totally unrelated to intense pressure from the Reaganauts to pump up the Soviet threat. Without 9/11, the CIA probably would have been stuck running a Bay of Pigs redux at the behest of the PNAC people with an attempted Chalabi coup in Iraq. Just like Baer wanted, of course. And I'm sure, as usual, it would have all been somebody else's fault when it failed, certainly not the fault of the "'we know everything and everyone else is stupid' civilian team running the Pentagon" ( (c) Thomas Friedman ) . Nothing is ever their fault. Of course, given history, the CIA is probably going to lose its current battle with the neocons, and Rummy and friends will get all the raw files they want to "connect the dots" in the one true neocon fashion. Too bad for the country, but that's life.

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