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...tawdry, implausible feel of a plot twist in a second-rate Tom Clancy novel. Britain's most distinguished expert on biological weapons, a mild, 59-year-old career bureaucrat of unblemished reputation, briefly rockets onto the national stage when he must tell a parliamentary committee about his contacts with a BBC journalist who may or may not have relied upon him to produce an incendiary story that challenged the integrity of the government. He appears strained while testifying - mumbling and shaking his head - denies being the source for the story, and complains about the experience afterwards, but the committee doesn...
...over intelligence assessments with the analysts who produced them. Some Democrats say Cheney's visits may have amounted to pressure on the normally cautious agency. Cheney's defenders insist that his visits merely showed the importance of the issue and that an honest analyst wouldn't feel pressure to twist intelligence. The House intelligence committee (and possibly its Senate counterpart, sources say) plans to question the CIA analysts who briefed Cheney, and that could lead to calling Cheney's hard-line aides and perhaps the Veep himself to testify...
...True to its type, Bunker 13 has an old-fashioned surprise ending, which restores a coherent morality. Bahal's plot twist is certainly surprising, but it leaves some gaping inconsistencies in its wake, which can't even be hinted at without spoiling the fun. And make no mistake, getting there is exhilarating, ingenious...
...confessed to the 1992 murder of a transvestite, and claimed he'd done it on the orders of former mayor Dominique Baudis, now head of the agency that oversees TV and radio programming. Baudis hotly denied the charges, and last week, in a pulp-novel plot twist, Alègre recanted. The French media , which spent the past six weeks hounding Baudis, was left issuing pious but guilty-sounding reminders about the presumption of innocence and the risks of believing psychopaths. Baudis also faced down another accuser, a former prostitute who alleges having seen him at the orgies and says...
...going "down the rabbit hole"? Well, Matriculated pulls you there and then some. Chung takes the concept of humans living in a computer-generated world and turns it on its head, plugging a machine into a kaleidoscopic human dreamworld. The result is electric?Kool-Aid brain candy, with a twist of unexpected pathos...