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"No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
We are agreed that it seems a wretched waste to have an intelligence service and not listen to it. Though, given 9/11, it's not unreasonable to distrust and discount both the CIA's intelligence and its analysis of it. Hence my confusion about why a serious purge wasn't conducted at the beginning of '02.
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I think Bush thought it would be taken as a sign of weakness and an admission that they'd screwed up on his watch. And I think he liked Tenet.
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“It was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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