Red Pepper: excellent info about upcoming investigations

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http://www.redpepper.org.uk/July2003/x-July2003-dreyfuss.html

Of course, it’s possible that the investigations will run aground, especially if they concentrate on the complex and varied estimates produced by the agencies and fail to focus on the distortion factory in Shulsky’s OSP. ‘The real issue is Shulsky,’ says one former US official. ‘They’ll want to look at the intelligence output. But what they’ve got to do is look at what got into the president’s in-box.’ If that happens, and if the media continue their drumbeat of exposés, then it’s very possible that by this fall the scandal will have left the arcane realm of the intelligence world and entered the rough and tumble world of politics.

Then, the question won’t be (as it was in Watergate): ‘What did the president know, and when did he know it?’ Bush, a know-nothing president, apparently had neither the interest nor the intellectual capacity to question the information he was receiving. The question will be: ‘What did the president not know, and when didn’t he know it?’