1.0 link 10257 <![CDATA[A "Rogue Agency"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-platt-liebau/a-rogue-agency_b_10257.html That's how Senator John McCain has described the CIA -- and about this, at least, he seems to be right.

As Deborah Orin points out in today's New York Post:

Having [Joe] Wilson go public was very useful to the CIA, especially the division where his wife worked — because it served to shift blame for failed "slam dunk" intelligence claims away from the agency. To say that Bush "twisted" intelligence was to presume — falsely — that the CIA had...

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