[lit-ideas] Re: NYT in the news again
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:33:32 -0400
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/26/2005 3:00:17 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: NYT in the news again
>
> Andy: Her credentials are good. It's hard to believe that
> anybody with any real
> information could have linked Saddam and 9/11 and done it so
> forcefully.
> Her information certainly didn't mislead Clinton.
>
> Eric: Her stuff is interesting. Unlikely as it sounds, Gore
> Vidal's on board with some of it too. In that book I cited, _Best
> American Essays 2002_ there's a piece by Gore Vidal about Timothy
> McVeigh and the OC Bombing, where Vidal speculates about the
> Iraqi/Middle Eastern involvement in the blast. It's also worth
> reading.
>
I wouldn't be surprised if al Qaeda were involved with Timothy McVeigh, but
Iraq and 9/11, there has been no evidence for that. Now, of course, Iraq
might be involved, but again through al Qaeda. OBL and Saddam hated each
other. Saddam patterned himself after Stalin. That's too strange even for
political bedfellows, not to mention that there's no evidence.
Andy
> Her straining to connect all the dots all the time (and some of
> the dots actually were connected, such as the Salman Pak
> terrorist training center, which the Marines excavated) made her
> what Peter Bergen called "a crackpot."
>
> Yet if anything, that shows how dangerous an inept intelligence
> agency is, and how important it is to have an extensive
> intelligence network. Unless one has good intelligence, then it's
> possible to be persuaded of almost any threat.
>
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