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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (41137)	4/2/2004 5:22:38 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

WWJD About WMD Intelligence about Jesus faulty Pilate admits Rich Broderick AP) Jerusalem -- After months of insisting that specially trained cohorts roaming the hill country in and around Galilee would soon turn up conclusive proof that Jesus of Nazareth posed "a unique and urgent threat" to Roman hegemony in the Near East and menaced the interests of "friends and allies alike," Pontius Pilate has finally yielded to intense pressure and admitted today that such claims were based upon "faulty intelligence" provided to him by the Sanhedrin, among other organizations. He also said he is still considering whether to appear before a special Good Friday Commission appointed to investigate the intelligence lapse. Jesus of Nazareth, the itinerant preacher who enraged some leaders of the Temple in Jerusalem while unsettling Roman authorities with his pronouncements that he was "the Son of Man" was executed on Pilate's orders last year in the midst of the Jewish feast of Passover. Among charges leveled against him was a particularly damning claim that, operating out of a heretofore unidentified kingdom called "Peace" in which he was Prince, he was assembling a huge army of potential martyrs. Efforts to locate Peace, however, have to date proved futile, sources close to the Roman Provincial Authority in Jerusalem now concede. Despite that failure and despite the embarrassment the episode has caused Pilate and, indeed, the entire Pax Romana, Pilate went on to say that he still has "complete and total faith in the Sanhedrin and, in particular, its director the High Priest Caiaphas." "I got good intelligence," Pilate said. "And I acted on it in good faith"' But even in admitting that "intelligence mistakes were made," Pilate continued to insist that his decision to order the scourging and crucifixion was still justified. "In an age like this when we can never know when the next terrorist attack by Sicarii or Zealots might occur, we can't afford the luxury of having our fears confirmed by a pillar of smoke rising above our cities and towns," Pilate said. "I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jesus was a madman. He posed a danger to the peace and stability of the entire world -- at least the part of it that's known. It's my job to keep the Roman Empire safe and that's what I'm going to do. I can't just wash my hands of my responsibilities." Meanwhile, another investigation into the source of the leak that identified Jesus of Nazareth to Sanhedrin guards who came to arrest him in the Garden of Gethsemane, has stalled over what some investigators say is a lack of cooperation on the part of the offices of the RPA and of the Temple. Asked whether he expected arrests to be made in that case, Pilate said only that "Tracking down leaks is a tricky business. We may never know who fingered Jesus." fifthcolumnmag.com lurqer