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Bush Administration Priorities on National Secrets

deadline poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the July 5, 2004 edition of The Nation.

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.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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