Strange things are happening in Washington these days.
First you have the
Downing Street Memo which brings a lot of things to light. Like how Bush's government did not believe Iraq was a greater threat than other nations; how intelligence was "fixed" to sell the case for war to the American public; and how the Bush Administration’s public assurances of "war as a last resort" were at odds with their privately stated intentions.
This all ties in nicely with something else. How Bush has now
side-lined the CIA and excluded CIA director Porter Goss from National Security Council meetings in favour of John Negroponte, the new director of National Intelligence.
How convenient that the Bush administration now has their own private intel agency working hand in hand with Homeland security. They can take the intel they think will further their agenda and ignore the rest of it (hmmm... 911?).
This is happening right in everyone's faces. You know the old adage "can't see the forest for the trees"?