It seems pretty odd to me that with all the divining of entrails and reading of tea leaves around the NIE and its bowdlerized public release, SOMEBODY would have noticed the political subtext.
Anybody notice there's an election coming up?
Two years ago, the intelligence community made several pretty obvious moves to discredit the Bush Administration in the lead-up to the 2004 election. They're doing it again now--they're pissed at how they've been discredited by the Administration's twisting, falsification and cherry-picking of intelligence, at the outing of Valerie Plame, and at the wholesale discrediting of their entire community in the name of the idiot policies of Boy King George.
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