Why isn't anyone debunking this meme??? ("CIA intelligence failures")

[Mugsy]

Can someone PLEASE tell me why I have not heard a single news source defending the CIA this past week on the suggestion it needs a new head because of "massive intelligence failures"?

Every newscast I've heard so far (all of the Sunday shows plus the Evening network news) are all repeating the GOP Talking Point... without dispute... that "the appointment of General Hayden to head up the CIA is necessary because the CIA needs to be rebuilt/restructured/fixed/etc following the massive intelligence failures of 9/11 and WMD's."

Uh, excuse me? But wasn't it the CIA that provided the intelligence for President Bush's infamous Aug 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."? And wasn't it the CIA that debunked the Niger/Uranium claim, calling it "highly dubious" in the NIE?

It was not the CIA guilty of "massive intelligence failure". It was CIA director Tenent and his "too close" relationship with the Bush White House that chose to ignore intelligence that didn't support their agenda, and cherry-pick those few facts that did. And their solution is to appoint yet another person with a "too close" relationship with the White House???

I'm more than a little annoyed that I'm not hearing ANYONE in the MSM pointing these crucial facts out and instead are helping perpetuate the myth that the CIA is a colossal failure and Bush's latest move to militarize a crucial civilian organization is perfectly understandable.

WHERE IN THE HELL IS EVERYBODY ON THIS???