Can We Agree?

[Tracy Riddle]

I disagree with the word "clearly," and also with the idea that the perpetrators were the whole intelligence community or the whole MIC (or some representative sample thereof). I don't disagree with the idea that persons from those entities were involved.

I don't think anyone believes that the hundreds of thousands of people in the MIC/Intel community, down to the last data entry clerk and purchasing manager, were involved in the plot. But clearly a group of people (maybe a hundred or so) from pretty high up in the national security state were responsible.