Digby: Stick This In Your Stovepipe

...and smoke it.

Last week a reader sent me this and considering today's news about Admiral Fallon, it takes on new urgency:

I just saw your post about Fallon being canned. I had a similar, sinking feeling as I was reading this William Broad piece from last Friday on how the recent Iran NIE report conclusions were a result of a “rules change” allowing the focus in the NIE to shift from uranium enrichment to weapon design.

He pointed out that the article sounded very much like it could have been written by Judy Miller and that this looked like a conscious strategy to put last December's bombshell NIE back on the shelf.