Thursday, August 05, 2004

Torture, Lies, and the Little Bush Who Cried Wolf

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Torture, Lies, and the Little Bush Who Cried Wolf, By Steve Weissman
Thursday 05 August 2004

'While the world watches to see when, where, or even if Osama bin Laden will cast his vote in America's presidential elections, his odds-on-favorite Mr. Bush has already given him a priceless gift - and not just in Iraq. The untold damage Team Bush has done to American intelligence only helps the Saudi terrorist wage his global holy war, gravely endangering your safety and mine.

But do not despair: help is on the way. For several months, some obviously dyspeptic 'deep throats' have been waging their own guerrilla counter-attacks, leaking inside information to hungry journalists, who are no longer as shamefully embedded as they once were.

The latest skirmish comes this week. Did you see how quickly unnamed law men and spooks let slip that the administration used computer files dated before 9/11 to jack up Sunday's dramatic Code Orange warning of impending terrorist attacks on East Coast financial targets?

Apparently seized last month in Pakistan along with alleged al-Qaeda computer boffin Muhammad Naeem Nur Khan, the data files reportedly held book-length reports on the vulnerabilities of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, New York Stock Exchange, Citicorp, and Prudential Financial. According to officials, the files also included hundreds of photographs, drawings, diagrams, logs of pedestrian traffic, and notes on the best types of explosives to use against each target. Someone had apparently read at least one of the files within the last six months, "