David Ignatius is a lot smarter than I am. He graduated from Cambridge and Harvard and has worked for The Wall Street Journal and the Herald Tribune.
So why am I baffled by the closing paragraph in his column in Sunday’s Washington Post?
Here it is:
The Real Crime
White House vs. CIA Was The Wrong Battle
By David Ignatius
Washington Post
Sunday, October 30, 2005
“…Now this saga has come full circle. Libby is accused of lying to FBI agents and the grand jury about his discussions of Valerie Plame Wilson and her CIA status. But as Fitzgerald suggested in his comments Friday, the deeper issue was blowing her cover and the disregard that showed for the CIA, its people and the importance of its mission. To me, that’s the real crime in Libbygate — that the Bush White House became so passionate about its goals that it treated the CIA as the enemy.”
David, ANYONE who didn’t or wouldn’t swallow the Bush Kool-Aid became the enemy. That IS standard policy. The CIA simply joined:
* ex-Army Chief of Staff Eric Shinseki.
* ex-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neil.
* ex- Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Larry Lindsey.
* ex-National Security Council official Richard Clarke.
* ex-Director of the White House Office Of Faith-based and Community Initiatives John DiIulio.
* ex-Chief of the United States Park Police Teresa Chambers.
* ex-chief contracting officer of the Army Corps of Engineers Bunnatine Greenhouse.
* ex-FBI agent Colleen Rowley.
* ex-FBI translator Sibel Edmonds.
* Richard Foster, Chief Medicare actuary, threatened with his dismissal if he provided accruate figure on Medicare costs.
* Ian Fishback, Army Captain now ‘confined’ to the Fort Bragg, North Carolina.Army Base.
* the 2,000 and counting dead American soldiers.
David, this is so readily apparent. I’m confounded. Why is it news to you?
