Save Our Spooks (NY Times)

(アフリカ東部から帰ってきた?)今日のクリストフのコラムは、依然見つからないイラク大量破壊兵器とこの件での米政府(or CIA)のメディア操作について。

The outrage among the intelligence professionals is so widespread that they have formed a group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, that wrote to President Bush this month to protest what it called "a policy and intelligence fiasco of monumental proportions."

"While there have been occasions in the past when intelligence has been deliberately warped for political purposes," the letter said, "never before has such warping been used in such a systematic way to mislead our elected representatives into voting to authorize launching a war."