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Fred Thompson for President, Quote of the Day
Mr. Thompson says that while a senator he was long concerned with U.S. intelligence failures."The CIA has better politicians than it has spies," he says, referring to the internecine turf wars that have been a feature of the Bush administration. A key problem, Mr. Thompson notes, is a general lack of accountability in government, where no one pays any price for failure. When asked about President Bush's awarding the Medal of Freedom to outgoing CIA Director George Tenet after U.S. intelligence failures in Iraq became apparent, he shakes his head: "I just didn't understand that." From an interview with John Fund of the WSJ - click the link to go there. He sounds like he has read Rantburg - we've been saying the same things here for years Posted by: OldSpook 2007-03-18 |
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