What do YOU feel are the most significant aspects of this case? Are you burying the lede a bit? It seems as if you're alluding to things here

Yet here is the first fatal biological terror attack on the U.S. in history -- one which, by our Government's own reckoning, came from a U.S. Government facility itself. Those attacks had an incalculable impact on our political climate. The list of possible suspects, with overwhelming motives to perpetrate the attack and ample opportunity to have done so, is long and high-powered. Both the public and private bio-research industry in the U.S., which was already quite substantial before 9/11 and exploded afterwards, is shrouded in almost total secrecy and operates with virtually no oversight, despite experimenting with the world's most dangerous pathogens and bioweapons, including anthrax. And much (though not all) of the establishment media is playing its now standard role of uncritically ingesting and trumpeting Government claims (even when -- especially when -- made in secret) and investigating nothing.

I know media malfeasance is one of your pressure points, but don't you feel THIS "Yet here is the first fatal biological terror attack on the U.S. in history -- one which, by our Government's own reckoning, came from a U.S. Government facility itself. Those attacks had an incalculable" [effect on feeding the wartime frenzied bloodlust] is the real crux of the biscuit?

Yes, you are appropriately hammering the FBI/media. I wonder, though, what you really think is going on, or what you're driving at. Am I asking for too much speculation?

on EmptyWheel's blog

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/08/18/the-strange-case-of-hiwa-abdul-rahman-rashul-part-1/#more-2583

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War Crimes, Ghost Detainee(s?)

Sharter28%, go here

http://tiny.cc/hImIL

N/T

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303731_pf.html

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ondelette's piece is enough to turn the stomach of anybody retaining the faintest glimmer of humanity. Everyone should read it.

http://humanityagainstcrimes.blogspot.com/2008/08/one-of-psychological-coercions-that.html

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You'll probably get to have TWO conversations w/ the man. If so, no tragedy there was a "glitch" the first time. C'est la vie.

Pretty please?

Of course, if you feel that'd be somehow counterproductive, taken out of context, or whatnot, I'll understand.

Bold tags on the post need fixing all of a sudden...

and I routinely (i.e. I have software that does it for me) use "fake" addies for anything on the tubes.

Ruppert's in this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znnRONNMDMQ

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All good.

Am I the only one?

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But since your "riposte" made me laugh, I'll concede your point.

http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008083204/yes-conservatives-inflated-tires-beats-coastal-drilling

The RW Talking points, I'm less inclined to forgive/forget.

Gratuitous insults tend to put people off. I'm one of those who feels it's perfectly appropriate to respond "forcefully".

And you might want to learn some rudimentary html, so "vile scum" such as myself (did you forget dim-witted?) can more easily recognize they've been quoted.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12308.html

much more @ site

A new book by the author Ron Suskind claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein.

Suskind writes in “The Way of the World,” to be published Tuesday, that the alleged forgery – adamantly denied by the White House – was designed to portray a false link between Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda as a justification for the Iraq war.

The author also claims that the Bush administration had information from a top Iraqi intelligence official “that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq – intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”

The letter’s existence has been reported before, and it had been written about as if it were genuine. It was passed in Baghdad to a reporter for The (London) Sunday Telegraph who wrote about it on the front page of Dec. 14, 2003, under the headline, “Terrorist behind September 11 strike ‘was trained by Saddam.’”

Since GG and Digby are waaaaaay too polite to respond appropriately to the "OMFG! She was all, like, 'you know' a hundred times! And Glenn has a voice made for blogging!" contingent, please allow me...

Howzabout all y'all just have a nice big cup of STFU!?

I mean, Fuck off. Seriously.

Just for the Record, Your Honor, I had serial, transient, obsessions w/ a few Kappas in my day.

And I didn't do it!

I'm going w/...

Whew. I thought for a minute that by highlighting that [I'm at a loss for words... "story"?] you were making some arcane "meta" comment on [I couldn't guess what - the media as whores? crazy people?]

I'm going w/ batsh!t f'ing crazy...

I'm missing the punch-line on your prostitution joke.

I know.

No "accusation" intended. I @'ed you because I considered you a part of the conversation. Always appreciate your input.

I can think of far worse things, quite easily.

Like attacking some country on what appears to be a whim, and killing hundreds of thousands of innocents.

I think all 3 of you agree w/ me on that.