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December 8, 2007

Maxwell Smart Acted Alone!

Scott Horton on mechanical difficulties with the Cone of Silence.

Posted by Jim Henley @ 12:42 pm, Filed under: Main

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2 Responses to “Maxwell Smart Acted Alone!”

  1. Comment by Happy Jack —
    December 8, 2007 @ 2:41 pm

    I only have one small quibble with Horton’s post. He says that the Admin. is pivoting to the scapegoat option now. However, if you read Hayden’s letter to the CIA, linked at Balkin in Mona’s post below, he states: “The decision to destroy the tapes was made within CIA itself.”

    That sounds to me like a team player providing plausible denialability in advance for the White House. He just didn’t mention who was going to play Lynndie England.

  2. Trackback by Discourse.net —
    December 8, 2007 @ 4:31 pm

    CIA Torture Tape Destruction: the Search for a Scapegoat…

    Scott Horton, The Scapgoat at Harpers, spotted via Jim Henley, Maxwell Smart Acted Alone!. Lots and lots of good stuff — here’s only a taste: When the Bush Administration trots out arguments and finds that even Michelle Malkin (“it is…

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