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It appears CIA director George Tenet is causing trouble for the White House again. As chronicled in this New York Times piece, Tenet told Congress yesterday that he repeatedly corrected Bush/Cheney's public utterances about Iraq intelligence leading up to the war.

I think this sort of thing helps make sense of why the White House is so off-kilter these days. For about three years they commanded an essentially fabulist regime in which there was no necessary connection between a) their statements and reality, or b) their statements yesterday and their statements today. I think the wave of scrutiny that's descended on them in the past few months has absolutely shocked them. They're masters of smash-mouth politics, but they have no idea what to do when they get smashed in the mouth. It's a new experience.