Overheard

"He talked about how hard it is to get the truth out in Republican Washington: 'If you agree with the neocons you're a genius. If you disagree you're a traitor.' Bush, he said, was closing ranks, purging anyone who wasn't 100% with him. Said Tenet has a child in bad health, has heart problems, and seemed to find him generally a decent guy under unimaginable pressure, and that people told him that Tenet feared a heart attack if he had to take one more grilling from Cheney. 'When these guys memoirs come out, it will shock all of us.'

WHO: This is not a direct quote, but worth repeating anyway, and it's from a speech Seymore Hersh gave at the University of Chicago. (Notes sent by email and posted on Brad DeLong's Webjournal.)