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O’Mary made himself an office in the basement of Massachusetts Hall by moving some file cabinets. From there he prepared the briefing books and oversaw the details for two years, through terrorist attacks, nationally publicized spats and political pronouncements.
TOUGH QUESTIONS: Now that the White House has released the famous Aug. 6 briefing paper, the 9/11 commission will have plenty of questions about the response at the time and whether the FBI has been fixed since then 19
Juxtaposition: A hallmark of modern art, postmodern literature and the Simpsons, the juxtaposition of unrelated or contradictory elements can be very effective in producing humor or horror. Cable TV is rich with both, thanks to the now-inescapable phenomenon of crowding the screen with as many visual artifacts and moving...
This week, the press will be doing a lot of close reading of the president’s Aug. 6 intelligence briefing, which includes a warning about “patterns of suspicious activity consistent with preparations for hijackings.…” The AP English definition of...
What will Condoleezza Rice face when she appears this week, publicly and under oath, before the commission investigating 9/11? Sources close to the inquiry tell TIME that panelists will probably grill Rice not only on questions raised by critics like former counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke but also on issues raised...