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The voodoo doll Secretary of State

In re: Top Bush aids approved interrogation tactics: report – Anybody have the feeling that somebody wanted to kill the chatter about Condi for Veep? Or that the somebody might have been Ashcroft? Insert some speculation here about Powell, since this sounds like him talking with Bob Woodward, and then some speculation about Andy Card since the leaker has access and a possible conscience. So which of the likely suspects has a bone to pick with Condi? Because they sure stuck the shiv in her -- multiple times, like pins in a voodoo doll. Are they literally daring a foreign country to snag her the next time she travels overseas? The rest of the principals aren’t as likely a rendition for war crimes as they’ll probably have more security (ex. DeadEye) or stay at home (ex. Rummy). We have “a select group of senior officials or their deputies”, of which the principals were “Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Directo...