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...gathering dysfunction in his Administration. The White House seems paralyzed, unable to stanch the political, diplomatic and actual bleeding over Iraq. There are turf wars everywhere. The CIA is at war with the White House; the Pentagon is at war with the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC); some elements of the uniformed military are furious with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, partly for launching the attack against Iraq in the first place without enough allied support. The fault lines are largely between moderate diplomatic and military traditionalists and more aggressive neoconservatives and nationalists...
...director George Tenet takes the blame for not having the Niger claim cut from the State of the Union but discloses that the National Security Council (NSC) pressed to include it. Eleven days later, NSC deputy Stephen Hadley admits he forgot that he had seen two memos from the agency expressing serious doubts about the intelligence...
...gathering dysfunction in his Administration. The White House seems paralyzed, unable to stanch the political, diplomatic and actual bleeding over Iraq. There are turf wars everywhere. The CIA is at war with the White House; the Pentagon is at war with the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC); some elements of the uniformed military are furious with the civilian leadership of the Pentagon, partly for launching the attack against Iraq in the first place without enough allied support. The fault lines are largely between moderate diplomatic and military traditionalists and more aggressive neoconservatives and nationalists...
...said he hadn't been consulted in advance. He implied that Rice's effort wasn't very important, anyway. Rumors of a Pentagon boycott of the process began to bubble when the political, economic and counterterrorism group meetings were either canceled or held without civilian Pentagon participation. An NSC source offered the plausible argument that these were just logistical problems with a new process. But the instantaneous rumors were typical of the Administration's foreign-policy mess...
Frank Gaffney, a conservative foreign-policy commentator, calls Joseph "one of the unsung heroes of the cold war." A former Administration official who worked with Joseph at the NSC describes him less charitably as "an ideologue." But it is his version of how those 16 words made it into the State of the Union that some Republican members of the House and Senate intelligence committees are eager to obtain under oath. That has become especially interesting now that Tenet reportedly acknowledged when he testified last week before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the questionable line in the text...