The North Korea intel botch is worse than you think.
By Fred Kaplan
Updated Thursday, March 1, 2007, at 6:49 PM ET
It's too bad that the U.S. political system offers no way to take a vote of "no confidence," because that describes the state we're living in now. We have come to the point where nothing that the Bush administration says can—or should—be trusted. That is, the government deserves no confidence.
This judgment (which many might view as laughably late) is sparked by stories in
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/washington/01korea.html">Thursday's New York Times and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/28/AR2007022801977.html">Washington Post quoting senior U.S. intelligence officials saying that North Korea might not have an enriched-uranium program after all.
The revelation is stunning on two levels.
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