NPR is hitting with one slam after another.

[Jackpine Radical]

First Daniel Schore
then the news
Now some ex-CIA guy doing an extended interview hitting them on everything--the CIA heroically resisted admin pressure to lie about Saddam & Osama--Wolfowitz a major force--Tenet finally caved.
The intelligence was cooked
Interview was with McGovern

Now someone else (someone from The Nation--I missed who) slamming intelligence going back to Bay of Pigs. Says either bad intel or lies by admin.

Host (Bob Edwards?) "If admin is manipulating intel, we're all in trouble."

[Maddy McCall]

1. About effen time!

I used to donate to public radio in our state, but the NPR shows became so conservative I stopped sending the monthly check, and began listening to American Urban Radio instead. Glad to see the pendulum swings back.

[DrBB]

2. Great--confirms that Tenet's "confession" was an indictment

Didn't listen this a.m., but the press--even the enfeebled NPR--are picking up on the fact that between the lines of Tenet's vague and passive-voiced and obfuscatory so-called mea culpa was a confirmation of the Kristof/Gjelten story that the WH was pressuring the CIA to approve something both parties knew to be bullshit. Or as TPM put it,

Read Tenet's 'mea culpa' (self-criticism session?) closely and you'll see it points right back at Condi Rice's NSC.

As I've been saying since Friday. Condi first blamed Tenet to the press from AF-1, then Karl said "You better call him and make him back your play or we're all in shit," and so Condi put the screws--she thought--to Tenet. And Tenet complied in a way that can put a stiletto right in her and the *admin's backs, if anyone cares to pick it up and use it.

[truth2power]

4. Someone, please...

Who or what is TPM?

[jamesinca]

3. Rummy and Russert on Meet the Press

had stated that it was know and the CIA wanted it deleted from the SOTU. They knew months ahead of time.

[Nlighten1]

5. National Procrastination Radio

It took them long enough.