Alter: Bush uses Intel for Purely Partisan Reasons (SMACKDOWN!!!)

[berni_mccoy]

This is an EXCELLENT read:

The Shoe (Bomb) on the Other Foot
President Bush’s revelation about a foiled bomb plot shows the dangers of declassification for purely partisan purposes.

Feb. 10, 2006 - Poor Porter Goss. First, the longtime Florida congressman leaves his safe seat to become director of the CIA, only to find that he’s been neutered by a new bureaucratic setup where he reports to John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence. Then he writes an op-ed piece decrying intelligence leaks in The New York Times on Friday, the exact same day as a story appears identifying today’s biggest leaker of antiterrorism secrets in Washington—President George W. Bush.

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Let’s get this straight. The president and administration officials will suddenly talk about details of the foiled plot—details that were highly classified until now. But they won’t say if the controversial NSA program was involved. Given their new willingness to talk at length about the case, can anyone seriously doubt that had the NSA eavesdropping cracked this case, they would have mentioned that? Simply saying that the NSA helped foil the plot—if it had—would not have compromised “sources and methods.” You can bet that if this were an NSA case, we’d know it.

Read It ALL HERE: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11279032/site/newsweek/

[TomClash]

1. Bingo

And this guy's Bush's buddy?

[Sperk]

2. 'bout time he's getting called on his evil deeds...BTW...how

is a shoe bomber supposed to take control of a plane and fly it into a building if the bomb goes off(supposedly to get the cockpit doors open)?

[Drewskie]

3. Was a good read.

I read the whole thing. Good article from Mr. Alter as per usual.

[rodeodance]

4. the media has not seen this as a contradiction.

[GetTheRightVote]

5. So once again for personal goals * outs info on our nation's

security, why oh why does anyone in this country support this as**ole ???

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