[JohnGalt]

Corry has taken on the role of voice of dissent at the American Spectator that has been sharply supportive of the war effort; though Corry should mention that his friend and editor of the Spectator, Bob Tyrell, now writes for a Hollinger owned paper, where, naturally, Perle sits on the board of directors as a close asset to Conrad Black.

[palmer]

A guy at work keeps coming into my office and saying "did you know Perle did blah blah" and I keep asking him "but what did Perle have for breakfast this morning?"

[LS]

"The CIA didn't have a single source in Iraq…Not only were there no human sources in the country, the CIA didn't have any in the neighboring countries -- Iran, Jordan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia -- who reported on Iraq. Like the rest of the U.S. government, its intelligence-gathering apparatus was blind when it came to Iraq."

This makes the whole article somewhatq suspect. Apparently the CIA has done a whale of a job a) finding the terror camps; b) providing clear information to the adminstration as to their links to Saddam; c) targeting Saddam and his cronies, and getting the schedules down; and d) working effectively with the Kurds.

The CIA also appears to have done an excellent job in Afghanistan.

So this sounds like a "disgruntled alert" to me.