NOVAK reveals another CIA official as a leaker?!

[Rose Siding]

He covers his butt some, by noting that the guy isn't covert, but does anyone know if the identity of the CIA leaker of the NIE that Bush called "guessing", was previously known?

Is CIA at war with Bush?

A few hours after George W. Bush dismissed a pessimistic CIA report on Iraq as ''just guessing,'' the analyst who identified himself as its author told a private dinner last week of secret, unheeded warnings years ago about going to war in Iraq. This exchange leads to the unavoidable conclusion that the president of the United States and the Central Intelligence Agency are at war with each other.

Paul R. Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia, sat down Tuesday night in a large West Coast city with a select group of private citizens. He was not talking off the cuff. Relying on a multi-paged, single-spaced memorandum, Pillar said he and his colleagues concluded early in the Bush administration that military intervention in Iraq would intensify anti-American hostility throughout Islam. This was not from a CIA retiree but an active senior official. (Pillar, no covert operative, is listed openly in the Federal Staff Directory.)

For President Bush to publicly write off a CIA paper as just guessing is without precedent. For the agency to go semi-public is not only unprecedented but shocking. George Tenet's retirement as director of Central Intelligence removed the buffer between president and agency. As the new DCI, Porter Goss inherits an extraordinarily sensitive situation.

Pillar's Tuesday night presentation was conducted under what used to be called the Lindley Rule (devised by Newsweek's Ernest K. Lindley): The identity of the speaker, to whom he spoke, and the fact that he spoke at all are secret, but the substance of what he said can be reported. This dinner, however, knocks the Lindley Rule on its head. The substance was less significant than the forbidden background details.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak27.html

[AlCzervik]

1. Lessons not learned by * from the Nixon admn.

Never degrade for F*ck with the CIA, because eventually, you'll pay.

[Rose Siding]

2. I don't think Novak learned it either n/t

[AlCzervik]

4. His time will come n/t

[Swamp Rat]

3. goddamn reptile!

[gordianot]

5. There is a silent war vicious war being fought.

Kerry has much to gain if Bush looses.

Hopefully Novak looses no matter who wins.

[Rose Siding]

6. Whoa! He notes that the Abwehr conspired against Hitler

Bob's come off his spools.

snip>
Modern history is filled with intelligence bureaus turning against their own governments, for good or ill. In the final days of World War II, the German Abwehr conspired against Hitler.

[lovuian]

7. I think We are seeing the death of the CIA

the irony is it was destroyed by its own kind