Conspiracy Praxis: The CIA as Keystone Kops (Again)

CIA erred and had tapes in September 11 conspirator case

Tue Nov 13, 2007 6:05pm EST

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA erred [sic!] in twice telling a court in the case of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui that it did not have any recordings of interrogations of "enemy combatants," when in fact it had three video or audio tapes, according to a letter released on Tuesday.

Two questions:

1. Which contortionist at Reuters came up with that unparodiable headline?

2. When is the Left finally going to get real about 9/11?

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Naomi Klein: Why failure is the new face of success

"So while the reconstruction of Iraq was certainly a failure for Iraqis and for US taxpayers, it has been anything but for the disaster capitalism complex. Made possible by the September 11 attacks, the war in Iraq represented nothing less than the violent birth of a new economy. This was the genius of Rumsfeld's "transformation" plan: since every possible aspect of both destruction and reconstruction has been outsourced and privatised, there is an economic boom when the bombs start falling, when they stop and when they start up again - a closed profit-loop of destruction and reconstruction, of tearing down and building up. For companies that are clever and far-sighted, such as Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, the destroyers and rebuilders are different divisions of the same corporations."