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To: LindyBill who wrote (144571)	10/26/2005 9:06:02 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793897

This article makes a lot of sense. Miller's self-censoring after Libby gave her license to talk months before she went to jail is very suspect. That we know now that he was complaining about the CIA's leaks suggests that her motives were to preclude any reports about them, though I must in all fairness ask why Libby didn't speak to some other reporter about the problem. And the idea that the CIA's sending of a politically compromised guy to investigate Niger's activities and expect a proper report is laughable. No wonder the Administration wonders about the CIA's objectivity. The CIA has been debasing its own currency for years; this is the result. But if Miller was too cozy with the White House, why didn't she rush into print with Libby's version of events and use him as an anonymous source? Miller couldn't even be counted on to do a story based on high-level information provided to her by the vice president's top aide. It was information that was not only true but explosive. Libby was letting Miller in on the real story of the Wilson affair--that the CIA was out to get the President, and that the agency was using Wilson to get Bush. Certainly a possibility. The CIA obviously knew the facts of the case. Nevertheless, with Wilson and the media, led by the Times, generating a feeding frenzy over the publication of his wife's name and affiliation, the agency pushed for a Justice Department investigation, on the false premise that revealing her identity was a crime. This is what started it all. It was the perfect way to divert attention from a much-needed investigation of the CIA, the ultimate source of the questionable intelligence that the administration used to make the case for the Iraq War. All you've got to do is read the Senate Select Committe's Report and that becomes as obvious as the nose on your face, but who ever digs through a badly written 500-page tome in these TV-addled days to find out any semblance of the truth? Certainly not those who have sharpened their axes and are using them against the Administration. The CIA didn't know that playing politics with the White House is ultimately a losing battle as is shown by the fact that the DCI is no longer the top dog in the intelligence community. That old oxymoron, military intelligence, will now rule the intelligence roost. I don't know whether this is good or bad, but I do know that the CIA miscalculated badly. If I were the President, I wouldn't want to rely on intelligence from an agency so puffed up on its own importance that it thinks it can take on the White House. As a result of all this, the CIA has been weakened considerably.