-> On 24 Jun 09  01:24:43, Richard Webb got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Woodward's state of denial was lost messages

 DC> As it is, it's a well written read. Often, books along that line are
 DC> on the stilted style.  I don't know if Woodward wrote it all himself
 DC> or if he had a ghostwriter help him.  

 RW> I think that was all Bob Woodward from what I've read of him before. 
 RW> Gotta replace this keyboard   KEys sticking half the time.
 RW> TOo many coffee baths I guess.
 
Yeah, there is a strange mix of caps and smalls!  

 DC> As it is, he appears to be blaming Rumsfeld heavily for the fiasco. 
 DC> Rummy  comes off as a complete prima donna.  

 RW> My take on it as well.  His is my main source of my
 RW> assertion that the wmd hunters were hamstrung from the get
 RW> go when it came to finding the stuff if it was there in the
 RW> first place.

I just finished that chapter.  They used intel that was 10+ yrs old.  And, 
there was virtually nothing that was collected by first hand spying.  It 
was all electronic from a distance. 


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