I'm citing the person being accused of wrong doing as a source. The person being interviewed by Chris Wallace, the person being accused of wrong doing by the Defense Department Inspector General explains his actions. The question of whether CIA information can be relied upon is a valid one. The CIA was eviscerated after it was deemed by many to be no longer necessary after the fall of the Soviet Union. They had no assets on the ground and the information that you love to say was a Bush lie was produced as a result of their inadequacies. It isn't as though the CIA had a lock on the truth and no one else's opinion was valid. Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andreas Ramos Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 12:07 AM To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: comments the DEMs must defend > Once again, when I check out a Leftist's allegation that lies under-girded > the Bush decision to invade Iraq, it turns out to be . . . a lie. Lawrence is citing Fox News as a source? Try the Pentagon. They say that the Bush decision was based on lies. > The Defense Department inspector general said in an executive summary released Friday to > the public that Feith, the top policy official under former defense secretary Donald > Rumsfeld, "developed, produced and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments > on the Iraq and Al Qaeda relationship, which included some conclusions that were > inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community, to senior decision-makers." http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070213/OPINION/7021 30303 http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=1244 9 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/ericmink/story/0F742AC7 96238E5D86257281007E47AC?OpenDocument yrs, andreas www.andreas.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html