Circling the wagons
The White House is playing musical chairs with a suspect piece of intelligence that either found or forced its way into the State of the Union Address: namely that British intelligence discovered that Iraq was trying to buy Nigerian Uranium. Over the past few days the "Pop Goes the Weasel" has stopped among the following excuses:
1. The British did it
2. The CIA let us say it (although under extreme duress)
3. It was not that important, anyway
It would be more believable to find that Jayson Blair was providing information to British intelligence, at least then we would know we had a reliably unreliable source. The latest play calls for White House staffers to diminish the importance of that part of the speech. It may have only been sixteen words, but when making a case for a pre-emptive war, one better be damn sure to be telling the truth.
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The White House is playing musical chairs with a suspect piece of intelligence that either found or forced its way into the State of the Union Address: namely that British intelligence discovered that Iraq was trying to buy Nigerian Uranium. Over the past few days the "Pop Goes the Weasel" has stopped among the following excuses:
1. The British did it
2. The CIA let us say it (although under extreme duress)
3. It was not that important, anyway
It would be more believable to find that Jayson Blair was providing information to British intelligence, at least then we would know we had a reliably unreliable source. The latest play calls for White House staffers to diminish the importance of that part of the speech. It may have only been sixteen words, but when making a case for a pre-emptive war, one better be damn sure to be telling the truth.
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