Rice spokesman Sean McCormack says, "I cannot in any way comment on classified matters, the existence or nonexistence of findings."..."In the final analysis, we have adopted a policy that we will not try to influence the outcome of the upcoming Iraqi election by covertly helping individual candidates for office."
Time article"Now that some schmuck, who can expect to be taken off at the knees, leaked and we got busted," he didn't add.
A senior U.S. official hinted that, under pressure from the Hill, the Administration scaled back its original plans. "This was a tough call. We went back and forth on it in the U.S. government. We consulted the Hill on this question ... Our embassy in Baghdad will run a number of overt programs to support the democratic electoral process," as the U.S. does elsewhere in the world.
Amazingly enough they can just admit publicly now that they make and carry out covert plans unless they get caught and "pressured", because the public obvious doesn't give a rat's ass. Or maybe the public agrees that we should be messing in other country's politics. And definitely the public is too gullible to think that those "overt" programs provide cover for the "covert" programs.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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