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To: mishedlo who wrote (262735)	10/4/2003 6:39:46 PM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Blair gets an inquisition -- Bush skates (with pants on fire) nytimes.com >>The task force, which was based at the Pentagon as part of the planning for the war, produced a book-length report that described the Iraqi oil industry as so badly damaged by a decade of trade embargoes that its production capacity had fallen by more than 25 percent, panel members have said. Despite those findings, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz told Congress during the war that "we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon." << Maybe that "nut" Ure is right -- big secret was how little oil there really was over there -- different motives altogether for the attack??

To: mishedlo who wrote (262735)	10/5/2003 11:20:18 AM
From: Terry Maloney	Respond to of 436258

<<Was it incompetence? Bad faith?>> Could always be both. <g/ng> << According to an ABC-Washington Post poll, nearly 70 percent of Americans believe a special counsel should be appointed to investigate the leak.>> Just learned from another Times article that Valerie Plame was a 'Noc', which makes it even more despicable: But within the C.I.A., the exposure of Ms. Plame is now considered an even greater instance of treachery. Ms. Plame, a specialist in nonconventional weapons who worked overseas, had "nonofficial cover," and was what in C.I.A. parlance is called a Noc, the most difficult kind of false identity for the agency to create. While most undercover agency officers disguise their real profession by pretending to be American embassy diplomats or other United States government employees, Ms. Plame passed herself off as a private energy expert. Intelligence experts said that Nocs have especially dangerous jobs. "Nocs are the holiest of holies," said Kenneth M. Pollack, a former agency officer who is now director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. "This is real James Bond stuff. You're going overseas posing as a businessman, and if the other government finds out about you, they're probably going to shoot you. The United States has basically no way to protect you." nytimes.com