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...rest the controversy about those 16 words, both Bush and Rice had pointed a finger at the agency, saying it had not conveyed its broad doubts about the intelligence. In response, the White House has been pelted with leaks (which Bush aides claim are coming from the CIA) that contradict Administration statements. By accepting some of the blame, the White House hopes to hush the family sniping. Some aides even welcomed the congressional report on intelligence failures at the CIA and FBI before 9/11 as a way of diverting attention. "Now it's the CIA and FBI pointing fingers...
...news conference when blamed for being complicit in outing Kelly after the weapons expert notified his bosses of a discrepancy between what he had told Gilligan and what Gilligan broadcast. Officials say Kelly was warned his name might become public. Certainly no one expected that putting him forward to contradict Gilligan would induce suicide. Only after his death, when the BBC admitted Kelly was Gilligan's source, did his difficulty in squaring what he had told Gilligan and other BBC reporters with what he told his bosses and the Foreign Affairs Committee become stark. Nevertheless, Blair let Hoon swing...
...plan: The Palestinian militant groups are hardly likely to maintain a truce with the Palestinian Authority if it launches a drive to disarm and dismantle them; and if Sharon is claiming Bush's backing for his own interpretation of the settlement issue (and the White House has yet to contradict him), then the credibility of the "roadmap" itself is at stake...
...Committee, Kelly faced a terrible bind. If in chatting to Gilligan, he had suggested that Campbell "sexed up" the dossier, he may have overstated what he actually knew. Before the Committee, he either had to take responsibility for that - and humiliate himself publicly - or back up Gilligan, which would contradict what he had already told the Ministry of Defense. He might also have accused Gilligan of making it all up. For a man whose colleagues recall an ironclad commitment to the truth, this was a terrible dilemma - and it showed. One friend who saw Kelly the day before his testimony...
...There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through jihad"; all "so-called peaceful solutions" contradict the principles of Hamas. "Death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of [Hamas'] wishes...