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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (273821)	2/1/2010 11:14:42 PM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Because it works. When something is working for you, don't stop. Do you think it was better 50 years ago? 100 years ago? 150 years ago? 200 years ago? Do you actually think voters were more politically aware 100 years ago than they are today? Do you believe that voters today have LESS information than voters of 100-200 years ago? Again.. money and politics is NOT anything new. WHAT HAS CHANGED is the public's ability to circumvent the MSM and actually probe for information on their own. The Xmas bomber case is an excellent example of how prying questions have forced the government to "amplify" on the unexplained events that witnesses recorded. haskellfamily.blogspot.com It will be interesting to see how much more comes to light from this. I'm wondering if Mutallab was possibly a double agent, and the agent who escorted him, his handler. It could also be that they were "Rat tracking" Mutallab to see who was going to meet him in Detroit, not knowing he had an actual bomb, but were forced into actually taking a "hands on" approach knowing he was on a watch list. If this was the operation, it would definitely be "hush-hush" and people would have been justifiably trying to avoid making the rats run for cover in Yemen and in the US. If they'd admitted Mutallab had help getting through Customs, it would have immediately tipped off the enemy that we'd penetrated the rat line network. But it finally explains how Mutallab evaded normal security measures. Now we "need" to know why.. or do we? We'll get some kind of story, but what I really would like to know is that this guy was being tracked by our guys as part of an intel operation. It's critically important to uncover how "brides and grooms" (their nicknames for suicide bombers) are being transported to the target. Hawk