July 27, 2003

move along. nothing to see here. there's nothing of interest to you in those 28 pages. move along.

great entry on media whores online -- his friends, the saudis (you have to scroll for it, there's no specific link for the piece).

"The prescient warnings of the late FBI counter-terror expert John O'Neill, who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, were vindicated again yesterday. He tried to tell us that the U.S. government protected Saudi interests at our terrible expense, and the joint Congressional committee report – whose chapter on the kingdom was redacted at the insistence of the Bush administration – posthumously proves O'Neill's point.

The consensus within the intelligence community during the years leading up to 9/11 was that the Saudi regime would never cooperate with the United States against Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. At least three high-ranking officials testified, according to the report, that such cooperation could not be expected because it would be "contrary to Saudi national interests," (...).


:: this is a government that bush considers our ally ::

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