The intelligence process is a bit like virginity," says Ray McGovern, who worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. "Once you prostitute it, it's never the same. Your credibility never recovers.

"Watching what has happened with Iraq over the past several months has been like watching your daughter being raped."

From this story on how much Bush and the inteliigence community hate each other.

a couple of things: there is rumours about that the yellow cake conterversory was planted by the cia as a way to discredit Bush, who they find problematic and a bit of a hothead.

if you fuck over the cia, yr adminstration is toast. they work independent, and can do real and permanat damage if care is not taken.

silence is being broken in a place where secerts are held dear, this thing is unravelling at the seams.