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Posted by Steve White 2007-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 The people responsible for this type of political manipulation need to be fired.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2007-12-14 04:54|| 2007-12-14 04:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The people responsible for this type of political manipulation need to be fired.

Out of a cannon.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-12-14 09:45|| 2007-12-14 09:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Henry Kissinger has spoken against the NIE and those who wrote it? In the Washington post, which is what those people read and believe? Oh dear. Seafarious, please, please, please go to a dinner party or two this weekend and report back on the conversation!

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-14 10:12|| 2007-12-14 10:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Henry's a snake, but he's a smart, interesting snake who sees things clearly. He understands that it's not the job of the CIA to make politics -- that's the job of elected officials and their designated servants (e.g., him when he was SoS).

I think the fools at CIA who've been orchestrating the hit pieces on Dubya tipped their hand too much this time. There's going to be blowback.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-12-14 11:31|| 2007-12-14 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 The CIA is broken.

Disband it, parcel out operations to the DIA, electronics to the NSA, overhead to the NRO, and reformulate it as a HUMINT-only and small-scale direct action agency. Put the most of the analysis, especially fusion analysis, at DNI as an "uber" agency. USe the old soviet system for analysis: prepare 3 sets of analysis: Best case, Worst case and Middle Case.

Present Middle, with footnotes to best and worst.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-12-14 12:21|| 2007-12-14 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Could the Iranians have suspended warhead enginieering (if they did) because they got the plans, tooling, and know-how from someone else who already had it?

Could it be hidden if they did?

Posted by D. R. M.">D. R. M. 2007-12-14 12:37|| http://trinitariandon.blogspot.com/]">[http://trinitariandon.blogspot.com/] 2007-12-14 12:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, and yes D.R.M. Yesterday one of our Rantburgers mentioned that the missiles themselves are just renamed North Korean ones... and one of Saddam Hussein's researchers had buried the plans for the Iraqi nukes under his rosebushes. And Saddam Hussein's war gasses were found post-invasion stored in barrels labelled "Insecticide".

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-12-14 12:46|| 2007-12-14 12:46|| Front Page Top

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