Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
Up to 40 countries are believed to be capable of manufacturing nuclear weapons, underlining the need to reinforce and update the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei told a French newspaper.
I have trouble sleeping every night.
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In yesterday's Los Angeles Times, Sonni Efron and Greg Miller write:
The newly retired head of the State Department's intelligence arm said Tuesday that the U.S. intelligence community "badly underperformed" for years in assessing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and should accept responsibility for its failure.
The assessment by Carl W. Ford Jr., former assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research, marked the first time a senior official involved in preparing the prewar assessments on Iraq has asserted that serious intelligence errors were made...
The intelligence community "has to bear the major responsibility for WMD information in Iraq and other intelligence failures," Ford said in two interviews with The Times. The Vietnam veteran worked for years in U.S. military intelligence, the CIA and the Defense Department and retired Oct. 3. "We badly underperformed for a number of years," he added, "and the information we were giving the policy community was off the mark."
Ford could not pinpoint what had gone wrong, but the question, he said, must be answered.
I wonder if Ford was asked what he thought about the efforts to find the alleged weapons.
UPDATE: The Simpsons apparently has said Fox News didn't threaten to sue, which is interesting because it adds support to the idea that Fox News was actually amused by the parody. That is interesting because it suggests that maybe they understand their is something absurd about their effort to put forth the obviously false notion that they are "fair and balanced." 11:37 p.m. 11/01/03 posted by micah holmquist at 10/30/2003 10:03:00 PM
