Five years of the Condor :: Power Line

The CIA and the State Department have together formed the powerful bureaucratic opposition to the foreign policy of the Bush administration. I tried to sketch out elements of the CIA's war on Bush two years ago in "Three years of the Condor." Yesterday's New York Sun editorial "The Van Diepen demarche" began to fill in the story with respect to the NIE on Iran's nuclear program:

The proper way to read this report is through the lens of the long struggle the professional intelligence community has been waging against the elected civilian administration in Washington. They have opposed President Bush on nearly every major policy decision. They were against the Iraqi National Congress. They were against elections in Iraq. They were against I. Lewis Libby. They are against a tough line on Iran.

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