NEW CIA DIRECTOR WANTED, MUST BE PRO ABORTION-----

against gun ownership, for the UN, Like France and Germany, be for gay marriage, back affirmative action within the CIA, be sure nobody is too Christian, and not spy on folks too much. The only good news for Bush is written by conservative lackey Mark Steyn in the Chicago Sun Times. After that it is all down hill for the CIA, a situation that has clear inferences that Bush kept on Tenet against all logic for an incoming president.

Overall: Mark Steyn in the Chicago Sun Times really lets it all hang out on the Niger/Yellowcake supposed lies by Bush. Of course it's up to writers to tell the truth, not those morons in the Bush "communications" staff or Bush himself. Iraq WAS trying to buy uranium, it is the Dems who are lying, and he blasts the CIA too.

''Operations that include diarrhea as a way of life don't happen.'' That's Niger in a nutshell: Diarrhea Central. Who'd want to be stationed there when they could be back at Langley monitoring the world's e-mail in an air-conditioned office?

He refers to Wilson as "Mint Tea Boy" and

he didn't find a big package of uranium bearing the address label ''S. Hussein, Suite 27, the Saddam Hussein Centre for Armageddon Studies, Saddam Hussein Parkway, Baghdad.'' Ambassador Wilson said relax, he'd been to Niger, spent "eight days drinking sweet mint tea and meeting with dozens of people,'' and there's nothing going on.

But Newsweek has a blast, and it ain't good, about the total CIA failure

Taken together, the facts in the report show that virtually every major claim President George W. Bush used to justify the invasion of Iraq—from Saddam's growing nuclear program to his close ties with Al Qaeda—was either wrong or exaggerated. The CIA was so convinced that Saddam was seeking to rebuild nuclear weapons that it "lost objectivity," the report concludes. The —problem was compounded by the fact that the CIA did not have a single human spy inside Iraq after 1998 to report on what was really going on in Saddam's weapons program. Why not? The agency apparently didn't want to take the risk. "It's very hard to sustain... it takes a rare officer who can go in... and survive scrutiny for a long time," the agency told the panel, which cited the responses as evidence of the "risk averse" corporate culture of the CIA. "Leading up to September 11, our government didn't connect the dots," said Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, the ranking Democrat on the committee. "In Iraq we are even more culpable, because the dots themselves never existed."

The Washington Post does a more detailed job

The teams led by Hans Blix, director of the U.N. effort to find chemical, biological and missile programs, were stunned by how little the CIA seemed to know about suspected sites, according to a Senate source familiar with the investigation. Senate investigators interviewed Blix and the head of intelligence analysis for the U.N. inspection teams whose headquarters were in New York.

Among the details that have not surfaced in the report but were shared with Senate investigators, was that requests by the U.N. teams to interview Iraqi defectors who were providing public accounts of Iraq's weapons programs were flatly denied, according to foreign diplomats associated with the investigation. Also, nuclear inspectors were not given information on any new sites at all -- mostly because the aluminum tubes made up the extent of the CIA's nuclear case.

All in all, we don't have a CIA worth a pitcher of warm spit. We went to war on almost completely worthless intel, intel that many in the CIA suspected was false. Read up because it ain't pretty and our stated reasons for going to war were nearly all false. The New York Times is running the full text of the report, if you have time to read it. For more on spying go here and link within to Herb Meyer at NRO. All of us should remember that it takes ten years to penetrate Middle East cultures and there are no short cuts, especially for Ivy League spies who don't want to eat bad food. Very Late Add Tim Russert of Meet the Press asked the most direct question of the two senators speaking for the committee regarding the CIA info: "Was there any reason to go to war against Iraq?" Both senators said that only reason was to remove a horrible dictatorship but that reason alone wasn't worth the life of a single American kid. I don't know how this will play out because of the hate tactics of the Left which rub too many voters the wrong way; Whoopie's drunken obscenity laden speech in NYC the other night is typical, and if you think this shit plays in the red states you are smoking too much meth.