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To: JohnM who wrote (127591)	3/28/2004 1:54:50 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

I'm convinced that paper trail is the reason the Bush folk don't wish to let Rice testify publicly, under oath. The administration's stance, that staff advice to the president remain subject to executive privilege, seems 100% genuine. They do believe that administration personnel must be able to get advice without it being dragged out under oath (it traditionally has this protection I understand) and are willing to take political hits for this. This is Evan Thomas' explanation of affairs. He makes the point that some unit whose specialty is looking for bin Laden types was diverted out of Afghan to Iraq to look, successfully, for Saddam. That is the first specific I have heard, in hundreds of charges of 'undermining the WOT'. However, one unit is not a damning charge in & of itself, and clearly there were many other factors at work. The charge is usually made without evidence, on the basis of the idea that Saddam had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism. Aside from this one charge, that is how Clarke makes it too. And that's the "Al Q morphed" during this period in which attention was diverted away to Iraq. And is now a "hydra headed" monster 'Scuse me, if you want to talk about morphing, didn't it do a WHOLE lotta morphing in the years when 80,000 jihadis graduated from the training camps and spread out through Europe and America? It is absurd to say it morphed while we were attacking it, but didn't when we let it thrive unmolested.