Letters to the Editor
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@ jayackroyd
-I suppose because Foster's victory happened yesterday, it can't be the focus of today's gasbags and editorialists. But it seems pretty darn important to me, a strong indication that Obama's version of the 50 state strategy has been vindicated.-
Correct. Howard Kurtz and all the gasbags must have missed that story because it was conspicuously absent from today's installment. Fox or the alphabet soups may have covered it but I did not check.
Notably, Wapo has covered the release of Douglas Feith's book today online: "Sure, Mistakes Were Made but It Wasn't me It Was That Bitch, Condi" AKA "War and Decision".
"He describes Bush as having wrestled seriously with difficult problems but as being ill-served by subordinates including Powell and Rice. Feith depicts former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld with almost complete admiration, questioning only his rough handling of subordinates.
Feith left the administration in mid-2005 and is now on the Georgetown University faculty. He was the subject of an investigation early last year by the Pentagon's inspector general for his office's secret prewar intelligence assessments outlining strong ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda. His reports, deemed "inconsistent" with those of the intelligence community, were judged "inappropriate" but not illegal.
In his book, Feith defends the intelligence activities on grounds that the CIA was "politicizing" intelligence by ignoring evidence in its own reports of ties between Hussein and international terrorists."
http://tiny.cc/FeithWorld