Month: October 2005

The following timeline (below the jump) is culled together by combining several timelines.

Cooperative Research
Dkosopedia: Plamegate
David Kelly: CNN

Some info is from less comprehensive timelines and my own research. It ties together Judith Miller, David Kelly, Valerie Plame, and the case for WMD, concentrating most heavily on the June-July 2003 period.

I’ll update this is this investigation goes along.

“The White House disregarded intelligence projections on post-Saddam Iraq according to a newly-declassified CIA report, Intelligence and Analysis on Iraq: Issues for the Intelligence Community, posted today on the website of the National Security Archive.”

It’s no shock to us, but worth noting that the “Kerr Report” finds that “intelligence analysts were under constant pressure to find ‘links between Saddam and [al-Qa’ida]’ causing them to take a “purposely aggressive approach” to the issue, ‘conducting exhaustive and repetitive searches for such links’.”

The press release I received from the National Security Archives notes that today’s New York Times carries a story on the Kerr report, written by Douglas Jehl. That it does: “Report Says White House Ignored C.I.A. on Iraq Chaos.”

But the NYTimes’ story today is so buried that I had to use its search engine to find Jehl’s review of the Kerry report. Not only is the story not listed on the home page, it is not even listed on the home page of the section (“International News”) in which it was dumped.

Isn’t that the darndest thing. And it’s odd that the story wouldn’t fit in the Nation or Washington sections of the ol’ gray girl. But what do I know. Could it have something to do with Judy’s WMD reporting?

Bush is in the tank.  His approval ratings in the latest polls hover between 37%-42%.  For the next 1000 or so days of his term, this country will be looking for its next president and doing its best to ignore its present president.

Where did the political groundswell of his mandate go?  

The orange place is already running with this, but haven’t seen it posted here so this is just a heads up. Apologies for any redundancy. If you thought Richard Cohen (occasionally) made sense, see him now in full psychedelic mode as he tries to take down Fitzgerald. Waiter! I’ll have what he’s… on second thought, skip that. Hugs and warm thoughts may be sent to: cohenr@washpost.com