As usual, if you want a reasoned and calm evaluation of anything to do with W, it takes a fellow Republican. The kvetching Democrats are really proving to be even loonier than I imagined. There are legitimate questions about our intelligence services, yet the Jackals on the Left are so close to devouring themselves chasing the small and irrelevant quarry of "the 16 words."
The problem is, I suppose, that if the Jackals actually attacked W from the right on the problems within the CIA, their record of emasculating the agency since the Church Committee would become relevant. So by doing the right thing, putting pressure on Bush to reform the CIA, they would attack their own credibility on national security.
I suspect the Jackals' feeding frenzy will not end until they finally consume themselves. Here's to hoping it happens at just the right moment to finally ostracize the Left.



Clifford D. May on "Yellowcakegate" on National Review Online: "What may be the biggest mystery in this melodrama has been missed by all the major media as far as I'm aware. Early in 2002, Vice President Dick Cheney had questions about reports of Saddam buying uranium from Niger. So he asked the Central Intelligence Agency to find out the truth. Consider: Here's a request from the White House on a vital national-security issue. Does the CIA put their top spies on the case? No. Who do they put on the case? No one. Instead, they apparently decided to give the assignment to a diplomat."