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To: Win Smith who wrote (117615)	10/24/2003 6:01:38 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Are you sure you aren't wound up, Win? 1.- "W operatives"--nice phrase, nicer conclusion 2.- "blow Plame's cover"--it perhaps was a bit flimsy, jury still out 3.- "true believers"--what can I say? 4.- "garbology"--cool 5.- "suckups"--you can do better.

To: Win Smith who wrote (117615)	10/24/2003 6:07:20 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Lie after lie after lie workingforchange.com <<..."The point is not that the president and his senior aides were consciously lying. What was taking place was much more systematic -- and potentially just as troublesome," writes Seymour Hersh in the current issue of The New Yorker, in a long, detailed account about our intelligence failures and the politically motivated "stovepiping" -- shooting unconfirmed intelligence reports, without analysis -- up to decision-makers. Among the horrific results, reports Hersh: "By March 2002, a former White House official told me, it was understood by many in the White House that the president had decided, in his own mind, to go to war. The undeclared decision had a devastating impact on the continuing war against terrorism. The Bush administration took many intelligence operations that had been aimed at Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups around the world and redirected them to the Persian Gulf. Linguists and special operatives were reassigned, and several ongoing antiterrorism intelligence programs were curtailed."...>>