The Republicans and their pundits have commenced a new lying offensive, this time on the
Silberman-Robb Intelligence Report, on Iraq and the deceptions that led to the Iraq Debacle.
atrios and
Josh Marshall have the goods:
Bill Kristol, 11/04/2005: "After all, the bipartisan Silberman-Robb commission found no evidence of political manufacture and manipulation of intelligence."
Silberman-Robb Commission Report, 3/31/05: "[W]e were not authorized to investigate how policymakers used the intelligence assessments they received from the Intelligence Community. Accordingly, while we interviewed a host of current and former policymakers during the course of our investigation, the purpose of those interviews was to learn about how the Intelligence Community reached and communicated its judgments about Iraq's weapons programs--not to review how policymakers subsequently used that information."
Of course, Time's Blog of the Year can't miss an opportunity to engage in The New McCarthyism, smearing Dems as traitors one more time. Ah, those "civil" Wingnut Blogs that don't take comments. Slander as a way of life.