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Bush Administration Priorities on National Secrets

When piqued at Ambassador Wilson The Bushmen saw no reason why They shouldn't just leak to all quarters The name of a CIA spy.

Calvin Trillin

June 17, 2004

When piqued at Ambassador Wilson The Bushmen saw no reason why They shouldn’t just leak to all quarters The name of a CIA spy.

And Chalabi, Man From Armani, Got secrets from them, whereupon He called an Iranian pal up And saw to it they were passed on.

But one of our secrets is safe still, And access is tightly controlled: The names on that energy task force. That secret will never be told.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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