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Ashton Carter, a counterproliferation expert at Harvard, believes the risk of nuclear proliferation out the back door of a rogue state is increasing. North Korea or Iran could conceivably sell a bomb to a terrorist group, and Osama bin Laden is unlikely to be put off by traditional methods of deterring a nuclear attack. That means plugging the source. Says Derek D. Smith, author of Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: "If you can't deter the terrorist organizations, you'd better be sure to deter whoever is supplying them...
...Porter Goss, the former CIA Director who at the time was still a Republican Congressman from Florida and head of the House intelligence committee. In an interview with Goss in his office on Capitol Hill, Grey asked if President Clinton should have arranged the secret kidnapping of Osama bin Laden. Goss replied that such a program in fact existed. "It's called a rendition. Do you know that?" he asked Grey. Grey did not, so Goss explained that it was "a polite way to take people out of action and bring them to some type of justice...
...then-Attorney General. Rice, quoted in Grey's book, told reporters last December that "the United States has not transported anyone, and will not transport anyone, to a country when we believe he will be tortured." Michael Scheuer, the retired head of the CIA's unit on Osama bin Laden and one of the architects of the renditions program, told Grey early last year in an interview that a team of lawyers within the Department of Justice "are involved in one way or another and have signed off on the procedure...
...interrogated in secret CIA prisons along with some three dozen other key captives, including alleged terrorists Ramzi Binalshibh and Abu Zubaydah, a close associate of Osama bin Laden. U.S. officials say all were questioned as part of a special CIA program that was in effect before Congress began legislating on interrogation policy, first last December and again in anew bill that President Bush is expected to sign soon. But with their actionable intelligence value largely exhausted in recent months - and the White House under political and legal pressure to alter the CIA's once-secret detention and interrogation system...
Still unsatsified, Frommer keeps bargain-hunting in the Habitat for Humanity donation bin, fashioning a corset from her finds...