Actually, if I read Steve Clemens correctly and if he is correct, the current problem is the CIA. But it could have been a rogue special forces outfit, or whatever. That may or may not have had connections to someone at the WH, which is quite different from connections at the WH.
I gather there is no dispute as to whether the ultimate authority lies at the WH. The dispute is whether, in the field, it should lie with the state department, the CIA, or the military. And it's clearly up to the WH to settle this issue.
I would prefer, all other things being equal, to have a foreign policy run by state rather than the military or the CIA. Even during the worst GWB days, state eluded, to some extent, control by the neocons; not so with the military and the CIA. |
