Reply #81: Your theory also answers one of the most lingering questions for me [View All]

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That being, Why didn't they just plant the wmd's?

The answer (your working theory) is that they TRIED and were foiled somehow (kelly, BJ, Plame) and once they went into attack mode to discredit plame,wilson et al, and to cover up their ATTEMPTED planting, they had to abandon the plan. Like you said the best they could do was switch from "dazzle 'em with brilliance (finding planted wmd's)" to "baffle 'em with bullshit (weapons of mass destruction program related activities).