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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (31856)	10/25/2004 11:55:32 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Oops!!!! Looks like in this case, it had nothing to do with Bush or incompetence by Bush.........

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (31856)	10/25/2004 11:58:13 AM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 173976

The Empty Terror War October 25, 2004 By now it’s clear that if Bush wins the election, it will be because many Americans believe that the president will better protect them from terrorism at home. Readers of this column know that I believe that the White House has consistently exaggerated the threat from Islamic terrorists in order to keep people scared. Two important stories in the Sunday New York Times are relevant to this. First is a major feature explaining how a secret clique of conservative lawyers, many from the right-wing Federalist Society, rewrote military law—including rules to create so-called military tribunals. The relevant paragraph is this: Three years later, not a single terrorist has been prosecuted. Of the roughly 560 men held at the United States naval base at Guantanamo, Cuba, only 4 have been formally charged... And since a Supreme Court decision that gave the detainees the right to challenge their imprisonment in federal court, the Petnagon has stepped up efforts to send home hundreds of men who it once branded as dangerous terrorists. In a second piece on the supposed Al Qaeda plot to attack the United States before the election, the Times notes that despite the well-publicized Tom Ridge-led warnings that an attack was imminent, there is zero evidence to back up the claims: In interviews, [officials] based in eight countries, including Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Jordan, said that they had not seen a single solid piece of intelligence, like a statement from a Qaeda operative or an intercepted phone conversation, to back up the warnings. And this: “I’ve seen some analytical pieces from the bureau and the agency,” said one senior American counterintelligence official, referring to election threat reports from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency. “On a scale of one to a hundred, I’d give it about a two.” tompaine.com