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'CIA leak saga': An intramural struggle within the U.S. government over Iraq
Posted: Thursday, July 05, 2007 5:06 PM by Hardball
Chris Matthews

The president’s decision to commute Scooter Libby’s prison sentence
gives us a chance to look at this whole “CIA leak saga” for what it is:
an intramural struggle within the U.S. government over the Iraq war.

That struggle pitted the career officers in the CIA, who opposed sending
the American army into Iraq against the White House hawks centered in
the vice president’s office who had set their hearts on taking out
Saddam Hussein.