June 10, 2006

Thirty Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest:
The Tangled Web of American "Intelligence"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106P.shtml"From such a tangled web of intelligence organizations, fighting for turf, squirreling away money in black accounts, running covert operations (not to speak of secret prisons and interrogations, kidnappings and assassinations), surveilling everyone in hearing or sight, and monitoring the universe, undoubtedly comes a tangled mass of information, however computerized, beyond the ken of any set of human beings," writes Tom Engelhardt.


This is a constant theme of mine. How can Bush or anyone in the administration count on anyone's views. This is the POSTmodernist dilemma, made worse by turf wars. I'll be even the KGB does a better job these days than the US. My computer is hit CONSTANTLY by the Chinese. Sometimes by the Australians and French. V.

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