"God Bless America" has become "God Forgive America" [View All]

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We'd better clean house while we have a chance.



TIME magazine, JULY 4th issue: "Two other serious, surreptitious - and quite possibly unprecedented - battles are going on: the intelligence community is at war with the White House, and the uniformed military is at war with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon." (link below)

Let’s take a look at the first: Intelligence Community vs White House. It starts with pResident Bush’s State of the Union address. Bush cited an intelligence report from the CIA, investigating claims that Iraq sought to purchase fissile material from the African state of Niger. The report concluded the allegations were NOT true. The evidence was found to be bogus – signatures on the Nigerian documents were from officials who hadn’t yet been in office at the time of signing. Despite the claims of the CIA, Bush painted a very different picture.

Former Ambassador to Iraq, Joseph Wilson, was the man sent to Niger to investigate these claims. Months after Bush’s speech, Wilson wrote in the NY Times, "I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

A week later, Washington Post columnist Robert Novak reported that part of the reason Wilson had been given the Niger mission was that his wife, Valerie Plame (CIA secret operative), recommended him. This report blew Plame’s cover, a very serious crime. Novak cited the White House as the source of the leak, but kept the specifics confidential.

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