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As TS Eliot once said: "Humankind cannot bear very much reality"...

Of course, we are talking about Dick "Dick" Cheney...

Anyhow, the American Conservative (!!!) published this today:

On Sept. 28, at the Vice President's request, the Agency provided a special briefing on the subject of Jordanian terrorist Mu'sab al-Zarqawi. The CIA's Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) reviewed all of the available intelligence on the subject and based its briefing on a just completed comprehensive intelligence analysis. The CTC concluded that Saddam Hussein had not materially supported Zarqawi before the U.S.-led invasion and that Zarqawi's infrastructure in Iraw before the war was confined to the northern no-fly zones of Kurdistan, beyond Baghdad's reach. Cheney reacted with fury, screaming at the briefer that CIA was trying to get John Kerry elected by contradicting the president's stance that Saddam had supported terrorism and therefore needed to be overthrown. The hapless briefer was shaken by the vice president's outburst, and the incident was reported back to Goss, who indicated that he was reluctant to confront the vice president's staff regarding it.
(via Justin Logan's blog)

They never learn, do they? They never, never learn. But then, how could they? Since they already know everything they need to know, what's to learn?

And I love "the hapless briefer was shaken." I'll say. Seeing my career go down the tubes always shakes me...

And I love even more that Goss just... wusses out. What a man.