>>" ...when the CIA knew perfectly well that the agent in question was not covert for the purposes of the criminal statute being cited and that no damage had been done to national security by her supposed 'outing'? "<<
Really... you get this from Feith, Addington, Pearle, Pipes, Kristol, Drudge, Rush, Hannity, Steyn, newsmax...?
Scheuer's "Imperial Hubris" is a very interesting, somewhat controversial, book.
Did you read it or do you just throw out his name? He was a strong believer in Bush's "integrity and honesty". Powell's pitch to the UN which was opposite to what Scheuer knew and had been in report sent to the Bushies re Iraq/AQ cooperation shook his "beliefs".
Another subject...
Btw, re the vet health care scandal, read the chapter in "Imperial Life in the Emerald City" titled "A Fool's Errand". The Bushies did everything they could to really screw up an already shaky, but once reasonably good, Iraqi health care system. These foul-ups such as the vet health care scandal just go on and on, starting right from the major foul-up at the top.
We rightly get concerned and upset by the treatment of our wounded in our system. But yesterday over 205 Iraqis were "wounded" by car bombs etc and the state of their healthcare system??? As Gen Odom said very early on, paraphrased..." fight terrorism in Iraq...HUH??... what we will do is create many more terrorists!!"...and I bet many of those 205 wounded and their extended families give us a lot of the blame and want to get even. |
