and when went learned there were no nuclear weapons or chemical or biological weapons in iraq there, the neocons around dick cheney wanted to us blame it on the cia. i watched washington post reporters cover that blame game for weeks and i watched the neocons expose valeruerie blaim undercover identity. now the incoming commander in chief is going to war with the cia, which dared conclude that russia intervened with the campaign with the intention of helping trump win. the washington post first reported that stunning conclusion this past friday night. trump s response to the news has been to impugn the intelligence agency. in a statement, he said, these are the same people who said saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. no, they weren t! wrong! it wasn t the intelligence professionals, it was the ideologues around dick cheney. mike morrell said they never told cheney that, that he ran with that himself.