...The C.I.A. will continue to be downgraded, and the agency will increasingly serve, as one government consultant with close ties to the Pentagon put it, as ?facilitators? of policy emanating from President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. This process is well under way.
...Next, we?re going to have the Iranian campaign. We?ve declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy. This is the last hurrah?we?ve got four years, and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism.
...The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia.
Soure: The New Yorker
