WTF Is It Now?!?

Flop sweat! Drudge sludge:
'Vice President Cheney telling House GOP leaders: Bush admin getting ready to go on a public relations offensive, attempt to recast debate on Niger, WMDs, including bringing back Mary Matalin for spin control... Developing...'




Tenet: "huh?"
"This president seems to be saying, 'The buck never stops here.'" - Joe 'GW Lite' Lieberman.

CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate intelligence committee yesterday that it was his staff's fault: they did not bring the questionable Iraq/Niger uranium claim to his attention before liar/warmonger Smirky McPollnumbers delivered his State of the Union address.

But Tenet told the senators that he takes responsibility for the now-famous 16-word sentence in the speech because an agency official had approved it after negotiations with the White House, according to congressional and administration sources who attended the session.

"Members were stunned," one Democratic senator in the meeting said, "because he said he basically wasn't aware of the sentence until recently."

Sen. John D. Rockefeller, ranking Democrat on the panel, told reporters that while Tenet took the blame for his agency, "it remains to be seen whether that is where it stops. I think others in the administration knew about it." He said the committee would look into whether the Niger reference "was an isolated incident or part of a pattern of misleading by the administration."

Another Democrat on the committee said, "The real question is why someone was so insistent that they wanted this information in."

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Flunky), the committee chairman, told reporters that the inquiry into Iraq intelligence and the resident's speeches would continue, and the panel "would follow the trail wherever it leads."

"Unless, of course, it leads back to anyone in the White House."