Time to Play the Blame Game

The White House promises to "hit back" at Democrats. The administration is gearing up to boost the President's stagnated poll numbers which have hovered in the 30s for weeks now.

CNN reports that the idea is to take on Democrat claims that pre-war intelligence was manipulated to support a war. The administration will take a familiar tack: shifting the blame. They plan to say the intel was faulty -- not misused. That everyone -- the President and Congress -- was given the same bad information.

But that might run counter to the increasing information coming out about how the administration used information leading up to the war.

Just this weekend, newly declassified documents showed that the administration continued to tout an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, for at least eight months after that intel was found to be highly suspect.

And the "16 words" and information coming from the CIA Leak investigation show that the administration continued to use intel that favored their position for war -- for months after intelligence officers told them it was based on forged documents. (CNN)