Tuesday, July 22, 2003

If this is the best they can do: In trouble with the electorate? Opposition starting to make hay on what you knew and when you knew it? What to do? Start releasing top secret documents to bail you out. Oh but wait! It doesn't help at all, but only makes things worse. The top secret, highly competent analysis is filled with phrases like "highly dubious" with regard to WMD intel. And what about this:
"We lack specific information on many key aspects of Iraq's WMD programs,'' intelligence experts reported of efforts to gain weapons of mass destruction. "We have low confidence in our ability to assess when Saddam would use WMD.''

The biggest question is why the report was classified in the first case? Oh, so the American people could be fooled by rhetoric, that's why. And, why is it suddenly okay to release classified information when it's politically expedient to do so? Isn't this the White House that is fighting, tooth and nail, all efforts to weaken Executive secrecy?

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