WASHINGTON - A Senate panel is probing allegations that FBI agents in Saudi Arabia sat on leads in the Sept. 11 investigation and then destroyed piles of secret documents related to the case, it was reported yesterday.
The FBI's legal attachés in Riyadh had papers marked secret spilling out of file drawers and time-sensitive documents left untranslated when a supervisor showed up a year after the 2001 attacks...
I find it curious that there's a lot of overlap in each of these stories, which led me to my original thought that something big on the 9/11 investigation is about to go “pop”.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
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"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."