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ANOTHER KOOKY CONSPIRACY THEORY |
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by Johnboy
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09 Oct 2001
Modified: 11 Oct 2001 |
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ABC News report May 2001 |
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See also:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html
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Old News By Now |
by ML
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09 Oct 2001
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Although interesting, it's rather old news by now (article is dated May 1, 2001, around the time Bamford's new book on the NSA was released.) Are you implying some relationship to recent events?
The CIA and Saudi intelligence linkage to bin-Laden is much more recent, timely, and relevant. By this, I do not mean to imply that the Sept. 11 attacks were somehow a covert op run by the CIA. What is most likely is that continued CIA policies of supporting clandestine armies and brutal dictators to do the dirty work of the US creates forces that are eventually beyond the control of the CIA. There are plenty of reasons that the present government in the US deserves to go to the dustbin of history, but I seriously doubt that the US directly organized what happened on Sept. 11. Anything like that would be an excursion into kooky conspriracy theory.
Although if you listen to the far-right, many of them think such a scenario was behind Sept. 11. I think they've been sniffing way too much gun-cleaning fluid for me to believe that.
Incompetent intelligence gathering, bad policy, and a commitment to making the world safe for US corporations to operate in, regardless of whether it makes the world unsafe for US citizens, is a far more credible explanation for the events of Sept. 11. |
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Government conspiracy, not just a paranoid delusion after all |
by kiwi
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10 Oct 2001
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This report proves that conspiracies are not so kooky after all. |
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Report Only Proves One Thing In This Context |
by ML
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11 Oct 2001
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Uhhh, kiwi,
That report only proves that the particular conspiracy isn't kooky. The public knew nothing about it until Bamford revealed it.
Extrapolating that report to present day circumstances, in the overwhelming absence of proof of anything similar happening, is kooky. |
