If ever there was a time to plant WMDs, this is it. If this doesn't happen, then the slide is greased and ready for Bush to slip into ignominy. All he needs is a little push.
You listening, Daschle? Pelosi?
Posted by pessimist at June 7, 2003 12:30 PMUsing a canvas-sided truck for production of an inflammable gas always made more sense from an engineering standpoint.
Posted by Tim at June 7, 2003 12:47 PMAmazing. Especially that part about the Pentagon approving this story -- which was page one today and above the fold. It will be very interesting to see the next flame from the intell community (the Sept 2002 memo was their round). I bet things get very sticky, very fast.
Posted by Mary at June 7, 2003 01:24 PMThe Pentagon blaming the intel community. I'm not surprised Rummy had a Plan B. Will Tenet allow his shop to be blamed?
Posted by Hoosiercat at June 7, 2003 02:55 PMNope. Tenet is not going to go quietly into that good night, not without taking down the rest of them.
The sad thing is though, all of them, Wolfie, Rummy, Cheney, Shrubya himself could walk the plank... and walk right into highly lucrative positions in the military industrial complex or oil bidness. Turn them out, but they will never suffer for this, unless they are prosecuted for war crimes which I can't imagine... yet. One step at a time though.
Posted by MrHappy at June 7, 2003 03:03 PMWhat's that old saying about honor among thieves?
Posted by pessimist at June 7, 2003 03:09 PMWhat I find interesting is the fact that Miller's coauthor on this piece is William Broad, the Times' respected science writer. During the Wen Ho Lee business, when it became clear that much of (I think it was) Gerth's original investigative reporting had been wildly overblown and slanted heavily against Lee, Broad wrote a long article that deflated or refuted many of Gerth's claims about Lee's potential threat to national security. Subsequent NYT coverage was much more skeptical and Gerth ceased to report on that story. I wonder if something similar is in the works for the WMD coverage?
Posted by morinao at June 7, 2003 06:22 PMmorinao:
You bring up a good point about Broad. Good reputation, and he could be there now to kill this once and for all. Unlike Miller, whose reputation is in tatters now.
Posted by Steve Soto at June 7, 2003 08:44 PMI had the same take about Broad being brought in to chaperone Miller -- he also co-wrote Miller's previous article (on the CIA white paper about the trailers). Thanks for the reminder that he'd done the same thing on the Wen Ho Lee story.
Posted by Swopa at June 7, 2003 11:11 PMSounds like Mr. Broad would make a good replacement for Raines...
Posted by Bram at June 9, 2003 12:13 AM