[woodward] shifting ground in a shifting washington

These sorts of revelations don’t help: # then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice brushed off warnings from the CIA two months before September 11, 2001, that al-Qa'ida was planning a possible domestic attack. CIA chief George Tenet and his counter-terrorism chief Cofer Black met Rice on July 10, 2001, hoping to "shake Rice" with a "strategic warning". But they both felt "the brush-off". # a classified document presented to the administration on May 24 this year charted how the insurgency would get worse in 2007. But two days later the Pentagon released a public report to the US Congress saying violent action would begin to wane in early 2007. The US is just five weeks out from congressional mid-term elections in which Democrats could take back control of Congress for the first time in 12 years and then all hell will break loose in Washington. The Democrats are expected to try to prosecute the over the Iraq war and even impeach Bush for misleading the American people. Some say Woodward is positioning himself for the new power balance in Washington.