An Explanation
Dr. Cole, in response to the confusion by many pundits as to what the Libby trial was about, provides a short presentation: Libby’s Lies, Cheney’s Lies.
Anticipating the problems some people seem to have with reading comprehension, he provides pictures.
The United States has no real idea what Iran is actually doing because the current White House destroyed our best source of human intelligence on WMD operations in Iran when it exposed Valery Plame and her network. It is highly likely that people were killed or imprisoned when it became known they were working with or for the CIA front company that Ms. Plame managed. The US ability to gather intelligence was seriously degraded by what Libby, Rove, and Cheney [at a minimum] did. The national security of the United States was put at risk to prevent the people of the United States from learning that the White House was distorting intelligence to justify the decision to go to war with Iraq.
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An excellent primer from Dr. Cole, though some of the pictures are pretty scary.
Even a 30%-er could understand, though I doubt few will bother to try.
Too bad no one from the media will take the trouble to do a little research.