We often talk about individuals on this site, but less attention has been given to movements, and networks. We know that certain individuals decide things, that they testify certain ways, etc., but we don't speak about the network. Much of what the administration says is indefensible, including Tony Snow's snowballing (when he was 'in power'), but in Tony Snow and, with others, who is 'the voice'? And is 'the voice' the criminal? Or is there a larger movement, a network? I believe the evidence suggests the latter.
When Tenet spoke at a university, shortly before he left the CIA, he looked very evasive and suspicious to me, but then, I later see Tenet do something else, after he leaves, and seems to be an intriguing, collegiate guy. Mueller, with the FBI, as well, has had his fair share of suspicious acts, as far as I'm concerned, but I see him talk about something else and I think, this guy seems on the level.
I think that's what makes the case for something larger. And when you start to look closer, you see a pattern, a web of people, interconnected, and an ideology that fuels it, based on the religious-like system of Leo Strauss, using many of the propaganda techniques hammered out over the early part of the 20th century.
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