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This is scary.
I doubt that the article was slanted. It probably is true that "liberal democrats" are being targeted in the CIA and being told to leave. There have been many damaging leaks from the CIA over the last couple of years -- damaging to the present administration, not to the country. The leakers have disclosed a rush to war over little in the way of evidence that Iraq posed an imminent threat; disclosed mismanagement in the conduct of the war itself; and disclosed failings in our war on terror. It is typical for this administration to attack the ones who leak information instead of considering solutions or reconsidering policy in light of any disclosed failings.
For instance: Valerie Plame, Richard Clarke, Paul O'Neal, General Shinseky
(spelling?), etc.
The leaks are coming out of the CIA for a reason. And I don't think it has anything really to do wth partisan politics. The CIA is upset with Bush for sifting through prewar intelligence and deciding what it liked and what it didn't like
-- and only using info it liked. Then, when things went wrong, the CIA was made the scapegoat for giving Bush bad intelligence.
The leakers may well be motivated by patriotism and a desire to see the truth emerge.
Bush is motivated by revenge and a desire to see the truth kept under wraps.
If the CIA is made a partisan arm of the White House, dedicated to secrecy and protection of the President -- moreso than the country -- Lord, save us.
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