[lbo-talk] Re: el sid on the senate intelligence report

[jimi ayler]

trying not to engage in too much "groupthink" myself,
i didn't pay very close attention to how the senate
released that recvent report criticizing the CIA for
the errors in intelligence leading up to the iraq
invasion. my bad -- perhaps it will come as a big
surprise for you as it did for me to discover, as
christopher hitchens' favorite reporter and clinton
adminstration functionary, sidney blumenthal, writes
in today's salon.com, we only got literally half of
the picture from this report:

"By virtue of a deal struck before the committee
conducted its investigation, the belligerent
Republican majority got timorous Democrats to separate
the inquiry into halves, leaving the question of the
Bush administration's culpability for a second report,
almost certainly to be filed after the election, if at
all. This unholy arrangement enabled the report to put
the burden of blame on the CIA..."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/07/15/intelligence/index.html

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