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To: LindyBill who wrote (15398)	11/6/2003 11:26:30 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793808

Now you've got my dander up. Comparing "The Shah's Men" to "The Protocols of Zion" sounds like comparing the Apollo Moon project to little green men from Roswell. No comparison. And what, exactly, is "leftist" about the historical facts of intelligence failures and abuses of the 1950's? This kind of logic implies there were no such abuses or failures, and any research or documentation to the contrary should not be tolerated, a la the Soviet Union. This is the same logic that attempts to portray the 911 Commission as "leftist" because it attempts to research exactly what the hell happened. Further, the idea that any research into intelligence failures and abuses should be dismissed as "conspiracy theories" is self-defeating. By that thinking we should pray unquestioningly to our gov't intel services like the Saudis pray to Allah, the All Powerful and All Wise. This Orwellian reasoning leaves one in the position of having to inspect any evidence and documents to discard anything that might connect two or more people, since that would mean a "conspiracy", and is by definition somehow therefore not valid. If we're being roped into using something other than the dictionary definition, we better make a clear definition of what a "conspiracy" label is, other than "anything I don't feel comfortable with".