corrente

The NYT's editorial Lambert quotes at length is worthy of note because, let's face it, it's the NYT and gets more attention that it deserves.

The folks who have got it dead-on right, though, are at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. This is clipped for length but the headline is the one THEY put on it:

Intelligence CYA/Senate GOP aims to help Bush

Editorial:July 10, 2004

If anyone thinks the Senate Intelligence Committee report on pre-Iraq war intelligence failures, released Friday, is all about making needed corrections to U.S. intelligence agencies and procedures, they're mistaken. This report is all about covering the Bush administration's posterior and getting President Bush reelected this fall.

Predictably, Republicans rushed to proclaim that the report exonerated the Bush administration's prewar activities... The notion that the Bush administration acted in good faith then, only to learn later that it had been misled by the CIA, doesn't pass the smell test.

The American people were duped into war by an administration that knew exactly what it was doing. Now it's trying to prevent exposure of its prewar conniving. Its efforts are cynical attempts to thwart the proper working of American democracy. Those efforts are not worthy of the American people, and they must not be allowed to succeed.

A damn shame that all these resounding denunciations are running on a Saturday, known to be the day of lowest newspaper readership.