Josh Marshall Gets it Right on Why the "Yellow Cake" and "Aluminum Tube" Lies Matter
From Talking Points Memo - whose TPM Cafe opens on Tuesday -
Some folks just can't let this drop. One of them is Walter Pincus of the Washington Post. And God bless him for it.Emphasis mine, for obvious (I would think) reasons.
In today's paper, Pincus has an article detailing how two intelligence analysts responsible for what is probably the single greatest screw-up about Iraqi WMD (the aluminum tubes issue) have received job performance awards in each of the last three years.
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It's truly a national scandal -- the surface of which has barely been scratched because the institutions with oversight responsibility have vested interest in not revealing what happened.
It's a national scandal for which, as time goes by, we all collectively become more and more responsible.
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