“Absolutely Absurd”

Key words from a key player. Directed at the White House and President Bush.

White House knew of NIE’s judgments for months.

Harper’s Scott Horton interviewed an intelligence community official who casts doubt on the White House’s claim that they only recent learned of the NIE’s judgments: But one highly reliable intelligence community source I consulted immediately after Hadley spoke answered my question this way: “This is absolutely absurd. The NIE has been in substantially the form in [...]

Speaking of absurd..

Right Claims Iran NIE a CIA Plot Against Bush

Another bang-your-head-against-the-keyboard moment.   Neocon Grandfather Emeritus Norman Podhoretz–now serving as FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR (oh, help us all) to Rudy Giuliani–has decided that the NIE report is a deliberate attempt by the CIA to subvert the Bush Doctrine. Un-fricking-believable.  How ’bout this, Norm?  YOU’RE WRONG.  You’ve always been wrong and you will continue to always be wrong.  [...]