Tony Blair has been "sprayed with more whitewash than a Costa Brava timeshare" - - conservative legislator and Daily Telegraph columnist Boris Johnson.
Where's the apology?
'George Bush promised to bring honor and integrity back to the White House. Instead, he got rid of accountability.'
So where are the apologies? Where are the resignations? Where is the investigation of this intelligence debacle? All we have is bluster from Dick Cheney, evasive WMD-related-program-activity language from Mr. Bush - and a determined effort to prevent an independent inquiry.
Mr. Kay still claims that this was a pure intelligence failure. I don't buy it: the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has issued a damning report on how the threat from Iraq was hyped, and former officials warned of politicized intelligence during the war buildup.
Other presidents would have liked to bully the C.I.A., stonewall investigations and give huge contracts to their friends without oversight. They knew, however, that they couldn't. What has gone wrong with our country that allows this president to get away with such things?
Mr. Kay still claims that this was a pure intelligence failure. I don't buy it: the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has issued a damning report on how the threat from Iraq was hyped, and former officials warned of politicized intelligence during the war buildup.
Other presidents would have liked to bully the C.I.A., stonewall investigations and give huge contracts to their friends without oversight. They knew, however, that they couldn't. What has gone wrong with our country that allows this president to get away with such things?
- - from Paul Krugman's column in the NY Times.
Thank God someone's bullshit meter went off the charts: Senator John McCain Thursday called for an independent commission to take 'a sweeping look at recent intelligence failures.' Not surprisingly, though, the White House dismissed the proposal, arguing that
Factoid: The whores at CNN, learning of the possibility of an intel probe, were screaming "election-year politics!" last night until Senator Carl Levin reminded them that over 500 of our 'young men and women' had been killed and thousands more wounded. Then they finally STFU.
Meanwhile, in Britain, opinion polls in newspapers Friday and accusations of a whitewash put a damper on the government's celebrations over the Hutton report, which had done its best to exonerate Bush leg-humper Tony 'Piddles' Blair.
A poll taken after Hutton published his report showed Blair's trust rating down two points at minus 17.
It also showed three times more people trusted the BBC over the government, and that support for the invasion of Iraq to counter the threat of unfound weapons had fallen.
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