I think we have an impoverished vocabulary for describing our differences. The assumptions that one has to make about how the world works and what motivates are enemies happen to be just the sort of propositions that define the fault lines in domestic political debate. It is not that the top officials writing the NIE report are "out to get" their "political enemies" so much as our domestic political disputes and our foreign intelligence disputes happen to revolve around the same questions.
Moreover, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Sun have raised legitimate questions about the three intelligence officials who were principally responsible for crafting the NIE. The Journal cited an intelligence source who described the three men as "hyper-partisan anti-Bush officials." If true, then we need to know what role these three individuals had in writing the NIE as well as the "Key Judgments" published for public consumption. |
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