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To: carranza2 who wrote (11173)	10/7/2003 8:33:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

This bureaucratic war is the result of the fact that the CIA feels backed into a corner: they believe that arousing the president's intense wrath is worth it, for they believe the White House staff has crossed a key line in the politicization and abuse of intelligence that should not be crossed. On the other hand, if the Plame affair had not come up, the question of the moment might be, "Why did the CIA get the intelligence on Iraq's WMDs so completely wrong?"

To: carranza2 who wrote (11173)	10/7/2003 11:03:11 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

Every morning, the first briefing book the President reads was put together for him by the "powers that be" at the CIA. Once upon a time, the most powerful people in the world were the people who decided what went into that briefing book. Once upon a time, our current President's father was in charge of the CIA, and his social group was the group that started the agency which became the CIA. Most of the people in the CIA, the vast majority, are not the old line, who have power because of who they were born, but bright boys and girls who believe they deserve power because they are bright. When a political organization feels wrath, and feels that it must take revenge, that tells you that what's really going on is that it's lost power.