Which also explains some of the sheer outrage from current and former members of the intelligence community: they're being trashed by an administration that's trying to find an excuse for the mess it's in, when they wouldn't be in this mess if they had just listened to the people they're trashing in the first place.* If the CIA report was circulated early this month, it was surely being written early last month. Reports like this take at least a few weeks to prepare....
* The report is incredibly bleak, and since facts on the ground don't change on a dime that means the situation in Iraq must have already seemed pretty dicey in early October.
* Even so, the White House went ahead with push back.
* No one is stupid enough to mount a PR campaign like this if they know that the facts on the ground are likely to make them look like idiots within a few short weeks. So the White House didn't know.
The problem is that trying to blame this kind of stuff on the CIA is getting less and less credible with every passing day: after all, if it really is the CIA's fault, their incompetence has now endangered the interests of the United States and badly embarrassed the president so many times that it's simply beyond belief that there haven't been wholesale firings in Langley.
You know, I'd be a little peeved too. Come to think of it, I am peeved, and I'm just one of the folks watching this idiocy unfold.
You know it's bad when you're a liberal and you miss Poppy. A lot.
(/) Roland X
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