http://www.antiwar.com/blog/20…..ment-69584

“Rep. Jane Harman of California, then the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and one of only four members of Congress informed of the tapes’ existence, said she objected to the destruction when informed of it in 2003.”

http://ap.google.com/article/A…..cch2P9ymXa
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Hayden Says CIA Videotapes Destroyed

but if that is so, then where is the Plame smoking gun and the DOJ Attorney’s smoking gun? Depending on where you are standing, the seams seem sewed up pretty tightly.

My point upthread was that the CIA seems to know when these things are coming out before they’re officially informed. Leaking is a two-way street, after all.

But if Cheney DIDN’T know this was coming, it’s all the more ironic…

But it wasn’t just the intelligence community that had been trying to prevent the war hawks in the Administration from bombing Iran. The Secretaries of State and Defense and the leaders of the uniformed military had decided that diplomacy was the best way to deal with an admittedly hostile and dangerous foe in Tehran. Almost exactly a year ago, after the firing of Donald Rumsfeld, the President met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the “Tank,” the Pentagon’s secure facility. Bush asked the Chiefs about attacking Iran. He was told that a bombing campaign could do severe damage to Iran’s military and nuclear facilities, but the Chiefs said they were opposed to such a strike because of the probable “blowback.” The Iranians, Bush was told, could make life very difficult for the U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq. They could shut off the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, thereby creating a global economic crisis. And they could use the threat of Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks on the American homeland

At about the same time, a new NIE on Iran was meandering through the intelligence community. A senior U.S. intelligence official told me last week that the report was prepared to say with a “moderate” degree of certainty that Iran had stopped its nuclear-weapons program, but the information wasn’t very conclusive. That finding would have put the U.S. in the same camp as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) — deeply concerned about the Iranian efforts to enrich uranium but skeptical about the regime’s efforts to fashion that uranium into a bomb.

Iran’s Nukes: Now They Tell Us?
By Joe Klein, Thursday, Dec. 06, 2007

Do you think Joe Klein will ever consider actually attributing a source to a set of asserted facts? Especially now, that he’s received such public attention about the accuracy of his reporting about FISA. Without EW’s sleuthing we probably would not have come to recognize Klein’s source in his FISA article as crazy Pete Hoekstra. No! Klein attributes with no more specificity that claiming “Republicans believe” and “Democrats believe.” From reading Klein’s column, it seems all news in Washington is without attribution. Without attribution there is no context. Do you think Klein bothered to get corroborating evidence or did he just sidle up to one insider and steno the conversation, all attempts to corroborate or further legitimize the assertion non existent?

Jokeline: Repeating, without attribution, single-source, and specious claims on-line and in print for Time Magazine…. because he loves politics.

BTW, did you see this? Jeebus, how do you lose a search warrant? was it destroyed with those CIA tapes?

Drippy Dick