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To: epicure who wrote (1943)	6/6/2003 5:02:24 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 20773

Faulty and ambiguous comparison. Nice to see you wading in and bolstering something you don't have a clue about. I've missed you doing that.

To: epicure who wrote (1943)	6/6/2003 8:32:09 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

BUSH and BIN LADEN, Crime, Inc. X, Re: I think there was a secret conspiracy between Bin Laden and Bush- What do mean "was"? Here's a roadmap to the ongoing conspiracy: "Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and the Failed Search for bin Laden" by Jean-Charles Brisard, Guillaume Dasquie et al amazon.com It's not the best written book I've ever read. But there is dirt here.

To: epicure who wrote (1943)	6/6/2003 11:40:24 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20773

smh.com.au Maybe the conspiracy didn't extend that far east... Cheney's CIA visits pressured us: analysts June 6 2003 Multiple visits to the CIA by the United States Vice-President, Dick Cheney, created an environment in which some analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments on Iraq fit with Bush Administration policy objectives, intelligence officials said. They said Mr Cheney and his chief of staff, "Scooter" Libby, questioned analysts studying Iraq's weapons programs and alleged links to al-Qaeda. Mr Cheney took the lead in the Administration last August in advocating military action against Iraq by claiming it had weapons of mass destruction. The visits "sent signals, intended or otherwise, that a certain output was desired from here", one agency official said. Other officials said they were not influenced by the visits from Mr Cheney's office, and some said they welcomed them. But the disclosure of his unusual hands-on role comes on the heels of mounting concern from intelligence officials and members of Congress that the Administration may have exaggerated intelligence it received about Iraq to build a case for war. While visits to CIA headquarters by a sitting vice-president are not unknown, they are unusual, intelligence officials said. A spokeswoman for Mr Cheney declined to discuss the matter. In a signal of the Bush Administration's concern over the issue, two top Pentagon officials held a news conference on Wednesday to challenge allegations they pressured the CIA or other agencies to slant intelligence. "I know of no pressure," said Douglas Feith, the under-secretary for policy. Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said on Wednesday that he would co-operate with a parliamentary inquiry into his Government's use of intelligence material. Tom Allard reports: Australian defence intelligence officials told a Senate committee yesterday that their analysis of the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction at times had a difference in emphasis from that of their US and British colleagues. They still believed such arms would be found but they conceded there were always doubts about the extent to which Iraq was armed. "We were cautious about the lack of weaponisation," the director of the Defence Intelligence Organisation, Frank Lewincamp, said. "That was a consistent part of our assessment and it remains the case." The Washington Post

To: epicure who wrote (1943)	6/7/2003 2:36:22 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

Story on plagiarism plagiarized: news.mysanantonio.com