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To: JohnM who wrote (154)	12/10/2002 1:34:25 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 603

Harper's Index, November 2002 harpers.org [This one's for you, John, primarily due to the last item listed below. ] Number of reports that President Bush referred to on September 7 as evidence of Iraq's nuclear threat : 2 Last year in which the agency Bush cited as the reports' author had new information on Iraq's nuclear program : 1998 Number of "indications" the agency had then of "any physical capability" to produce weapons-grade nuclear material : 0 Chances an American believes the government should restrict professors from criticizing U.S. policy during war : 2 in 5

To: JohnM who wrote (154)	12/10/2002 3:43:57 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 603

John Markoff, Pentagon Plans a Computer System That Would Peek at Personal Data of Americans nytimes.com A little for-the-record research and cross-referencing. Markoff is one of my favorite NYT types, on a whim I went looking for his original article on Mosaic, the prototype web browser that more-or-less set the web in motion. Turns out it dates back to 1992: crs4.it , from nethistory.urldir.com . Eslewhere on the Pointexter front: google-watch.org Somebody else apparently made the sort of obvious link between nytimes.com and nytimes.com (posted in #reply-18282711 ) google-watch.org . With a little luck, though, Poindexter will do an NIH with google. I hope, anyway. Dick did come up previously here in #reply-18275177 and nytimes.com