Republican shrill shill for the Bush administration, David Brooks,who works writing a column for the New York Times tells of an ongoing mutiny by the C.I.A. The horrible crime the C.I.A. is engaged in? Leaking the truth to the American people. After years of being blamed for the lies of Bush, members of the C.I.A. struck back certain of a Kerry win. Is this column predicting a coming C.I.A. purge? First the military retires voices of their top brass who thought Iraq unwise, now intelligence agents to suffer the same fate? Valerie Plume was just the first shot over the bow.
"The C.I.A. Versus Bush
By DAVID BROOKS
Published: November 13, 2004
ow that he's been returned to office, President Bush is going to have to differentiate between his opponents and his enemies. His opponents are found in the Democratic Party. His enemies are in certain offices of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Over the past several months, as much of official Washington looked on wide-eyed and agog, many in the C.I.A. bureaucracy have waged an unabashed effort to undermine the current administration.
At the height of the campaign, C.I.A. officials, who are supposed to serve the president and stay out of politics and policy, served up leak after leak to discredit the president's Iraq policy. There were leaks of prewar intelligence estimates, leaks of interagency memos. In mid-September, somebody leaked a C.I.A. report predicting a gloomy or apocalyptic future for the region. Later that month, a senior C.I.A. official, Paul Pillar, reportedly made comments saying he had long felt the decision to go to war would heighten anti-American animosity in the Arab world." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/opinion/13brooks.html?hp