The worm takes another turn in the strange tale of Douglas "Ninnycon" Feith. Seems that in a "supplemental annex" to the Senate intel report, our pal Douggie gets whacked pretty good for telling poor retarded Duhbya all sorts of tales about collaboration between Iraq and al Qaeda.
Of course you won't read about this in the stalwart, patriotic newspapers of our great Republic, so it's over to the UK we go, as usual:
The Telgraph
Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links
By Julian Coman in Washington
(Filed: 11/07/2004)
A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda, according to the Senate intelligence committee.
The allegations about Douglas Feith, the number three at the Department of Defence, are made in a supplementary annexe of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to war in Iraq, released on Friday.
According to dramatic testimony contained in the annexe, Mr Feith's cell undermined the credibility of CIA judgments on Iraq's alleged al-Qa'eda links within the highest levels of the Bush administration.
The cell appears to have been set up by Mr Feith as an adjunct to the Office of Special Plans, a Pentagon intelligence-gathering operation established in the wake of 9/11 with the authority of Paul Wolfowitz. Its focus quickly became the al-Qa'eda-Saddam link.
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The claims will lead to calls by Democrats for the resignation of Mr Feith.... "Tenet fell on his sword," said one Democrat official, "even though it's clear that he was placed under tremendous pressure to come up with the 'right' intelligence product for the administration on Iraq.
"The testimony to the committee on Feith and other Pentagon officials shows just what kind of pressure was being exerted. And when that didn't work, the Pentagon was just coming up with its own answers and feeding them to the White House. And on al-Qa'eda they got it all wrong."
I've said it before and I've said it again... what does it take to get fired from this Administration? How many times can you fuck up -- and not harmlessly, I mean fuck up with huge, major consequences like causing the Iraq disaster -- and still keep your job?
The Bushists are just a Mutual Ass-Covering Society. They have fucked up so badly that they know the only chance for survival is to stick together and hope that somehow Kerry does not take the White House.
Because if Kerry wins, the curtain will be ripped away and we'll see the Bush debacle in its full extent. And I'll bet it's much, much worse than we could possibly suspect.