A Pentagon adviser who has worked with Special Plans dismissed any criticism of the operation as little more than bureaucratic whining. “Shulsky and Luti won the policy debate,†the adviser said. “They beat ’em—they cleaned up against State and the C.I.A. There’s no mystery why they won—because they were more effective in making their argument. Luti is smarter than the opposition. Wolfowitz is smarter. They out-argued them. It was a fair fight. They persuaded the President of the need to make a new security policy. Those who lose are so good at trying to undercut those who won.†He added, “I’d love to be the historian who writes the story of how this small group of eight or nine people made the case and won.â€
I'd love to read that historian. These people cherrypicked and distorted the real intelligence and now they are trying to pretend it was the CIA's fault.
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and lest we forget: "Donald Rumsfeld has his own special sources. Are they reliable?"