The Times itself, as a publication, has pretty much scuttled its credibility by teaming up with Peter Schweizer, author of the evidence-free tome Clinton Cash, but the Morrell book catches the Times biting its own sorry tail.
All hail Gertrude Stein! "There is no there there. "
Oh the woes of trying to run a complex publication with consistency and integrity - lost on the NYT - but thanks for this one.
Ex-C.I.A. Official Rebuts Repubwith lican Claims on Benghazi Attack in ‘The Great War of Our Time’
WASHINGTON — The former deputy director of the C.I.A. asserts in a forthcoming book that Republicans, in their eagerness to politicize the killing of the American ambassador to Libya, repeatedly distorted the agency’s analysis of events. But he also argues that the C.I.A. should get out of the business of providing “talking points” for administration officials in national security events that quickly become partisan, as happened after the Benghazi attack in 2012.The official, Michael J. Morell, dismisses the allegation that the United States military and C.I.A. officers “were ordered to stand down and not come to the rescue of their comrades,” and he says there is “no evidence” to support the charge that “there was a conspiracy between C.I.A. and the White House to spin the Benghazi story in a way that would protect the political interests of the president and Secretary Clinton,” referring to the secretary of state at the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton.Read more >>>>
