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To: TobagoJack who wrote (22162)	8/5/2002 6:51:53 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

POLL MANIPULATION? NEVER HAPPENS..... UNLESS YOU OWN A CIA Hi Jay, I came across an interesting item last week, newmassmedia.com Apparently some "power that be" was unhappy with a religious sites poll results on the terrible secrecy veil that Bush/Cheney has cast over Operation 911. So, someone went in and hacked the site, to more suitably reflect the government's desired results: <COPY> Here's another example, found on the religious site, Ecclesiastic Commonwealth Community (www.ecclesia.org). Their poll question was, "More than six months has passed since the 9-11 disaster. Whom do you honestly believe actually caused and was the major force behind the destruction of the World Trade Center?" After 5,682 votes, the results broke down as: Osama bin Laden (4.4 percent) 250 votes; American militias (0.3 percent) 18; White House (21.9 percent) 1243; Pentagon (1.1 percent) 65; The Taliban and al-Qaida (18.2 percent) 1035 votes; Sadaam Hussein (Iraq) (3.9 percent) 224; New World Order (48.0 percent) 2728; other (2.1 percent) 119. And yet, two hours later, the results took a dramatic turn. All of the categories were up anywhere from 11 percent to 34 percent, but the "Taliban/al-Qaida" category zoomed 251 percent, garnering 2,600 votes. When alerted of this surge, the site discovered that the poll had been "hacked" via "an AOL server near Langley, Virginia. He got in by using a Java script we haven't seen before." If the CIA is hacking a tiny religious site to skew poll results the way they want, what sort of hacking is going on with the ubiquitous polls that are trumpeted nightly on the mainstream, corporate, status quo "news" networks? """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Thank God for our effective intelligence agencies! Cheerio! Ray