The CIA "War" on Bush: The New Neocon Ploy
Extreme Right meet the Extreme Left. Now you both can agree. Whatever happens, it must be the fault of the CIA. Sleeper cell members, Al-Qaeda operatives, terrorists, foreign agents you can all rest easy. We've finally found the enemy and it ain't you. Nope. It's our own subversive intelligence services. If we don't have the Mullahs to kick around anymore, what better substitute than the boys over at Langley?
As I mentioned just yesterday, the neocon pushback on the NIE Iran report continues to be relentless. Now it has gelled into a visible, pointed strategy. It's all about the "CIA's war on Bush" as the geniuses over at Powerlines have put it.
On the same blog, long-time Kissinger Krony and current employee at the American Enterprise Institute, Mark Falcoff, argues the same line, explaining to us dunderheads that the CIA is divided into two clear factions. The action/operative types are just like the cool straight-shooters in the movies. And then, oh heavens, are all those pointy-headed analyst guys who...well... you just can't trust. Says Falcoff: "The estimates guys are mostly academic types who couldn't find a job teaching at a university when they got their Ph.D. Politically and culturally they are absolutely indistinguishable from the career people at the State Department. You can imagine what that means in the present context of Bush-hatred."
Oooooo, how scary indeed! If the CIA guys are so twisted, incompetent and duplicitous, what must the resident "scholars" at the lower-rung AEI think-tank be like? Mark?
And the beat goes on. The Wall Street Journal editorialized, going way over the edge, by fingering the alleged three authors of the NIE report as "hyper-partisan anti-Bush officials." Why, natch. How come the rest of us didn't figure this out? Sixteen separate U.S. intelligence agencies, working for more than a year to figure out what's really going on Iran, colluded to put their names behind what is, in reality, a Democratic election-year ploy to discredit the administration they all serve! How obvious.
Having finally exhausted the re-runs of the 2007 World Series of Poker, I flicked on Charlie Rose late last night who was chatting away with Fred Thompson. And there was Uncle Fred nimbly tapping out the same dance as the Powerline guys. I'll admit that Thompson pushed me too close to a state of narcolepsy to have actually taken notes, but I was awake enough to notice how dutifully he was trashing the CIA. If they so botched up Iraq, Thompson drawled, how on earth could we believe what they have to say about Iran?
Which doesn't answer, of course, the question of why Thompson is currently supporting a war based on the same intelligence he now dismisses. But then again none of this is about providing answers -- only excuses. Excuses to continue a tilt toward war in Iran, no matter the reality.
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Of course they hate King George W (R) over at the CIA! They are human. It only stands to reason that the majority of them would join the majority of the rest of us. Hatred of this "person" is well justified.
they are going to spin themselves into the ground
Plame-game continues.
billions get pissed away...tax
Poor George Bush- at war with Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, and now the CIA too. Poor, poor George Bush.
Hell hath no fury like a neocon denied war.
" Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive...
What kills me is so-called Democrats who can see Bush and Cheney trying to start a war with Iran and who choose not to support impeachment.
Democrats who do not support impeachment should be forced out of the Democratic party for the good of America.
The war between WH and CIA started when Cheney and DOD generated their own Iraqi intelligence, using the most bellicose interpretations of the data and embellishing with patently unbelievable human sources provided by Chalabi. When it was verified that WMDs hadn't been around for years and after the outlines of the con job on the American public became apparent, the Admin. went and started blaming the CIA for intelligence failures. We were getting some interesting and WH damning leaks out of the agency during the '04 election season, but you had to be listening closely to hear it. Make no mistake, though, in '04 the agency was not going to take one for the team. Porter Goss was dispatched to whip the agency into line, but I gather that didn't quite work out.
For Iraq II: Target Tehran, I gather the CIA is making darn sure that its part in the sequel will not be repeated.
These neo conjobs haven't been right about ANYTHING!!! How can anyone with a shred of thought believe anything they say???
Yeah, like anything Bush/Cheney and their neocon, right wing thugs can be trusted.
If the CIA really wanted to push back against Bush and Cheney, it would be more likely that they would both disappear, and be renditioned to a secret prison, tortured and then disposed of when they were damned ready to do so.
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