LH: Perhaps you could enlighten us as to current
thinking about Laurie Mylroie, but more
importantly, could you please get Irene off my back.
Andyrene could look her up on sourcewatch.com.
Peter Bergen thinks she's a conspiracy nut, while
Clinton's ex-CIA chief Woolsey reveres her. In
_Best American Essays 2002_, Gore Vidal's piece on
the Oklahoma City Bombers references her work.
Her main assumption (in connecting Saddam to WTC
attack in '93) was that Ramzi Yusef was an Iraqi
agent, and that seems to have been refuted. Other
assumptions of hers--such as the Iraq terrorist
training site at Salman Pak--have been proven.
As a professor at the Naval War College, she was
enormously influential with first-term
Clintonians, and especially among the NeoCons,
especially Cheney's people.
Her writings do give a picture of how muddy
intelligence work is, how analysts must always
sift unknowns with partially knowns, and the fluid
nature of terrorist connections, e.g., former IRA
bombers working with Columbian rebels.
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