July 15, 2003, 0100 PDT (FTW) - The speed with which CIA Director George Tenet accepted responsibility last Friday for clearing George W. Bush's
January 28 State of the Union Speech containing the bogus Iraq-uranium statement based upon forged documents was matched by the speed with which major
news agencies - many of which had already been serving as conduits for CIA leaks - released stories that guaranteed deeper and more hostile probes.
The writing appears to be on the wall for a beleaguered and disarrayed presidency, as key administration officials including Dick Cheney and
Condoleezza Rice either wittingly or unwittingly line up like chess pieces to take the fall for a doomed King.
It's too soon to go for the president - unless the media is brought to task for their complicitness first and shamed into reporting all that they
should have been reporting and journalists are investigators again - that will be the only way this court of public opinion can function.
Otherwise, the sheep of this country who don't go beyond Ch.7 for news will always be of the mitigated thought that it's all partisan politics.