Reply #30: One of the quotes

[H2O Man]

I used a couple days ago in my essay about Condi Rice seemed pretty significant to me. No one else commented on it -- maybe because it was at the end of a long article. But I think it is telling (and I think that you more than most will understand the significance), and so I will again quote from Bob Woodward's "Plan of Attack" (page 442):

"As the WMD controversy grew in 2004, the president expressed his concerns to Rice. To air all of the CIA's problems could have two negatives that he wanted to avoid. First, the controversy would lead to congressional investigations like the Church and Pike Committees in 1975-76 that revealed CIA spying on U.S. citizens, ...."