Reply #2: YES, but...

[CaptainMidnight]

If that's the gist of SY's article and the CIA's argument...

Then doesn't this actually HELP Cheney and BushCo to wriggle off the hook?

Their "spin," and the media's enabling of such, has not been that Bush and Cheney LIED, but rather that they had been given "bad intelligence." The CIA fucked up. Those dumb bunnies screwed up Bush's Iraq intelligence.

It seems like this article only re-affirms the White House spin, or "hangout" on this which is, "okay, it WAS a lie, but it wasn't OUR lie."

IT's still bad, but again, much like 9-11 Foreknowledge, by them helping paint the picture that they were INCOMPETENT as opposed to COMPLICIT, it seems as though it's enough to let them ultimately get away with.

And of course, with regards to all that, the economy, foreign policy, Iraq War, War on Terror, it seems as tho the American people will let them get away with INCOMPETENCE as opposed to COMPLICITY.

Thoughts?

Captain Mike