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To: carranza2 who wrote (172135)	7/2/2006 11:24:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

I guess it could happen....on the other side of the looking glass. The idea that Valery Plame was truly covert does deserve parody. One obvious point, I forgot to mention, was that her marriage to Wilson was public knowledge, so that if Wilson himself had wished to protect her status he would have thought twice before blabbing his trip to Niger all over the NYT op-ed pages, as he was such an unlikely candidate to be picked on his own merits that the deal obviously smacked of some brand of favoritism. It would not have been hard for any interested party to figure out what.

To: carranza2 who wrote (172135)	7/3/2006 4:12:53 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793916

Your reasoning is excellent. Now, let's see you use that same logic on an international terrorist, who has two choices on transferring money -- he can send it via his friendly neighborhood hawala network, which his family has used for hundreds of years (it's true!), and is completely untraceable, and even gives a better exchange rate and lower transactions costs than banks, or he can rely on the discretion of the banking system. Hmmm. What to do, what to do? (BTW -- the ancients had something like hawala long before Islam. I learned about this system in a class taught by Yiannopoulous -- according to him, the Greeks invented everything. Very helpful on long trade voyages and the Silk Road. But they used written documents called bills of exchange. Hawala relies on trust, is oral, and has no written records.)