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To: PartyTime who started this subject	4/8/2003 2:03:26 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) of 21614

Why shrub has expanded the secrecy lockbox: "They also looked at ways of dedicating Defense Department funds as a way of insuring against attack, and were looking at all sorts of mechanisms off the books that would set up this deal. This is what really preoccupied U.S. policy with Iraq at the same time Saddam Hussein was unleashing weapons of mass destruction. GNN: At one point, at the same time the State Department was urging the Export-Import Bank to push through this loan for the pipeline, the State Department itself was issuing statements criticizing Iraq for using chemical weapons. It's taken so long for this major operation to come out, it must have been very top secret. How aware where they in keeping it under wraps? Jim Vallette: There was definitely an assumption that these documents were never going to come out." Subject 53789 The neocons lost their grip on secrecy on their first go-round. They're back again though.

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