Monday, February 09, 2004

Politicizing intelligence

The Administration's still at it, only more obviously than ever. This NYT times report about a supposed memo by an Iraqi insurgent soliciting al Qaeda's support for a civil war in Iraq was handed to the reporter by an official of the occupation. It contains a description of the state of the insurgency, calls for assistance, remonstrations about the power of the US Army and its unremitting resolve.
My first reaction was that the memo's a fake, which so many similar leaks have been. My second was that if it's for real, why would it be leaked, except for Bush's political gain? Isn't this precisely the kind of information that we don't want the adversary to know we have? Bush, the president who touts himself as the most capable of handling the war on terr'r, is apparently willing to subvert his troops' efforts when it benefits his chance for reelection.
But then I already knew that.

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