Reply #3: The Bush administration has sabotaged America's ability to gather intelligence,

[madhoosier]

Why has the Bush administration purged non-loyalists from the CIA and State Department? Their agenda of regime change needs faulty intelligence to build a false case for invading other countries, which also explains the outing of Valerie Plame, the leak to Ahmed Chalabi that compromised the NSA intercepts of the Iranian diplomatic code, the leak that identified Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, who was a Pakistani computer communications expert that Pakistan had turned into a double agent giving them a direct window into the inner workings of al Qaeda and the release in December of 2001 of the clandestinely filmed tape of Osama bin Laden talking to the crippled Saudi Sheik about the attacks of 9/11. What can explain the audacity it takes to destroy your own nation’s ability to gather timely and accurate intelligence to advance a policy of starting wars of aggression? Can you imagine the outrage in the media had Bill Clinton’s administration had compromised America’s intelligence community with these acts?