Late on a Friday afternoon is not the best time to bring this up. Everybody’s probably gone or He begins, “The invasion and conquest of Iraq by the United States last spring was the result The conclusions Powers draws — about a U.S. Congress that is nothing but an empty shell Late on a Friday afternoon is not the best time to bring this up. Everybody’s probably gone or about to be gone for the weekend. But if you’re still around and online you’ve got to read “The Vanishing Case for War” by Thomas Powers in the current issue of The New York Review of Books. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nabout to be gone for the weekend. But if you’re still around and online you’ve got to read
\nVanishing Case for War”<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> by Thomas Powers in the current issue of
\nThe New York Review of Books. <\/P>
\n
\nof what is probably the least ambiguous case of the misreading of secret intelligence information
\nin American history.” Then, with compelling details and riveting clarity, he addresses “whether it
\nis even possible that a misreading so profound could yet be in some sense ‘a mistake.'”<\/P>
\n
\nand a CIA that is nothing more than a pawn of the White House, let alone an arrogant, imperial
\npresidency that undermines our security with lies — are familiar enough. But Powers martials the
\nevidence without polemics, and his argument is so convincing it ought to give us
\nnightmares.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"