Archives for 2004
You can download the full text
of the CEIP report from their website: WMD in Iraq – Evidence and Implications.
A new report on Iraq
has just been released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The report looked into the WMD issue pre-war to try and figure out what went wrong, and the conclusions are pretty scathing. Joseph Cirincione was quoted on CNN yesterday morning:
…we looked at the intelligence assessment process, and we have come to the conclusion that it is broken, that it has now become deeply politicized, that it is very likely that intelligence officials were pressured by senior administration officials, to conform their threat assessments to preexisting policies.
I highly doubt this will have much of an affect on the Bush Administration, unfortunately. But the underlying teleological character of the current gang in Washington is obvious: they have already formulated their conclusions; their ongoing task is to fit events to lead to those conclusions.
Blog Juice:
CNN is now posting what look to be full transcripts of their programming on their website. It’s not clear how long the archives will remain available on the site, but nevertheless it’s very cool development. Current blogging theory would suggest that CNN will become a more authoritative souce based on the increased accessibility of this material. It will be interesting to see if this differentiates them from other news networks in this way.
Steve Gillmor
Battle of the Bands: Gates vs. Jobs. For my part, I much prefer a world in which people are understood as creative, active participants, not simply passive viewers/consumers.
