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POPS CAIR Once Again Silent On Gillian Gibbons Imprisonment 
In both cases, CAIR rose up to defend the offenders in question and engaged in their now standard grievance theater protest politics. When it comes to the November 1999 incident, any mention of CAIR’s involvement or defense of the Saudi students has been scrubbed from the organization’s website. It’s no wonder, as the 9/11 Commission Report (page 521, footnote 60) explains that the FBI now considers the incident as a “dry run” for the 9/11 hijackings There is a connection between these two incidents, as the leader of the six “Flying Imams” this past November is none other than Omar Shahin, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Tucson, where the two Saudi students from the November 1999 incident attended. Counterterrorism expert Rita Katz told the Washington Post in September 2002 that the mosque served as “basically the first cell of Al-Qaeda in the United States; that is where it all started” “Al Qaeda among Us”, provides greater detail about the connections
If true, GW Bush even worse than Bill Clinton. IF this incident as reported by Col Hunt is factual, then President Bush if not responsible for not pulling the trigger, should fire evey last OIC that allowed Bin Laden to escape yet again.
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POPSWho cares about the spirit of the law when you can find away around the letter of it? Not surprisingly, the FBI is trying to find away around rules prohibiting it from maintaining records of people's telephone and internet usage (unless its for an ongoing criminal investigation or intelligence operation). Their latest idea? Pay phone companies millions to store their customer's records and allow the FBI immediate access to them "if it asks." How much longer until this administration goes away? ::plaintive sigh::
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POPSEnron, intelligence, and the perils of too much information - Malcolm Gladwell Malcolm Gladwell on the qualitatively different natures of "mysteries" and "puzzles" from an information theoretic point of view. Among other things, Gladwell implies that entities like Enron and Al Qaeda were allowed to thrive not despite the public nature of their operation but because of it. If things go wrong with a puzzle, identifying the culprit is easy: it’s the person who withheld information. Mysteries, though, are a lot murkier: sometimes the information we’ve been given is inadequate, and sometimes we aren’t very smart about making sense of what we’ve been given, and sometimes the question itself cannot be answered. Puzzles come to satisfying conclusions. Mysteries often don’t.
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