June 6, 2003

Is There a Conspirator in the White House?

To the Editor:

I hold no brief whatsoever for the conspiracy theorists criticized by Robert J. Lieber ("The Neoconservative-Conspiracy Theory: Pure Myth," The Review, May 2). However, I am a student of national-security decision making, and it seems to me that, in criticizing the conspiracy theorists, Lieber threw the baby out with the bath water. ...

The essence of his rebuttal of the conspiracy theorists lies in three sentences, presented as if they were fact when they are