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Originally posted by DukeLeto
If you agree that the credibility of our intelligence agencies is important, it follows that you must be supportive of any inquiry designed to expose and correct possible failures of the intelligence-gathering agencies.
If you believe that the credibility of the Presidency and of American leadership overseas is important, you ought to support any investigation of possible wrongdoing by the President and his staff related to such grave issues as WMD and war.
If you believe that the opposition party, when presented with overwhelming evidence that the Administration has something to hide, will refrain from using it as a point of contention, you have departed the world of reason.
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If you think the credibility of our intelligence agencies is important then you should have the opposite opinion. If the intelligence agencies have to fear that their actions, analysis, and methods will be used as political fodder then they will either be rendered ineffective or they simply will not report ANYTHING useful to the committee.