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This goes to the second piece of gospel about Bush and Cheney's partnership: that its inner workings are utterly secret, the Vice President perfectly discreet. He's Bush's personal CIA, with secure lines into corporate boardrooms, foreign governments, both houses of Congress and sleeper cells in every branch of government. When he went to visit senior British officials--who know something about reticence--they were struck by his demeanor. "There's no charisma," one of them observes. "But that's not what he's there for, which is intelligence, wisdom." In their first meeting, just before Bush took...
...peace prize? Oil tanker spills? Axis of evil? Airline bankruptcies? Ozzy Osbourne? It's as if CNN was replaced by CNNClassic. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're rerunning old infrared shots of Baghdad. The terrorists that struck the U.S. in 2002 weren't recruits from international sleeper cells but the regular crazy homegrown kind: a sniper spending time with a kid who calls himself his stepson in the ickiest father-son bonding since Bill Wyman's son nearly became his dad's stepfather-in-law, and a college kid who was planting mailbox bombs in order to make...
...Yemen an American Predator drone fired a missile by remote control into a car carrying suspected terrorists and killed them. You said, "U.S. officials think" that one of the six killed was Kamal Derwish, "a Yemeni American cited in federal court papers as the ringleader of an alleged terrorist sleeper cell" in the U.S. Another victim, "according to Yemeni officials," was a former bodyguard of bin Laden's. Apparently, the U.S. now kills without judicial trials and without questions. Are we nothing more than technically advanced snipers and terrorists? STEFAN SALINAS San Francisco...
Mombasa highlights the diffuse configuration of terrorism today. In Kenya, sleeper cells or refugees from Afghanistan or remnants of the embassy-bombing conspiracy still operate. Several suspects from the 1998 plot are still at large, including two Mombasa-based men who, according to court records, bought the suicide truck. Locals may have relied on al-Qaeda coordinators to bring in weapons and then conducted the attack themselves...
...perhaps there is something more corrupting about the Harvard football team playing McNeese State after Thanksgiving than the women’s hockey team going deep into NCAAs or Penn basketball becoming America’s sleeper pick every March. But there certainly is a double-standard, one that has no apparent benefit...