1 Boring Old Man

To amplify the point in the last post, the Administration continues to scapegoat the C.I.A. at every opportunity, in spite of controlling it for 6 years. As far back as 1997, the P.N.A.C. wrote Clinton, lambasting the C.I.A. for leading him astray by worrying about Al Qaeda rather than Iraq. In spite of being dead wrong, they’ve kept it up – ignoring the C.I.A. in the prewar intelligence [Niger Forgeries, Iraq’s Al Qaeda ties], then blaming the C.I.A. for the prewar intelligence, then setting up or relying on alternative intelligence agencies [O.S.P., D.I.A., N.S.A.], and still blaming the C.I.A. for any and every thing that doesn’t go their way. So, outing an undercover C.I.A. Agent is consistent with everything else they’ve done. The only sin that I can see is that the C.I.A. isn’t partisan, and cannot be completely controlled – at least so far.