May 09, 2006

Another Whopper

In today's WaPo, a Dana Priest piece describes the Hayden pick as a "clever move" by Negroponte to exert greater control over Rumsfeld's "burgeoning intelligence bureaucracy." Of course, Rumsfeld recently declared he wasn't in the intelligence business:

Well, first of all, I haven’t lied. I did not lie then. Colin Powell didn’t lie. He spent weeks and weeks with the Central Intelligence Agency people and prepared a presentation that I know he believed was accurate, and he presented that to the United Nations. The president spent weeks and weeks with the central intelligence people and he went to the american people and made a presentation. I’m not in the intelligence business. They gave the world their honest opinion. It appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there.

Yes, of course, Rumsfeld's not in the intelligence business. So what's all the fuss about?

Posted by Gregory at May 9, 2006 05:33 AM | TrackBack (0)