3 thoughts on “The Spies Who Are Out In The Cold”

  1. While I am itching to see the report published in full detail, glorious technicolor and supermariannation I do wonder if it would be wise to go into too much detail. It’s the old dilemma of having to read the document to know if it’s safe to read the document. Sometimes thing are classified Top Secret because, well, they are Top Secret. Which is pretty handy for those who wish to avoid being seen to have fumbled the ball. I think they should publish it in entirety, after all if they haven’t made significant changes to their intelligence gathering techniques by now (and you have demonstrated elsewhere that they have ample financial backing to do so) then they deserve to have their precious secrets exposed.

  2. It was pretty obvious to me we were being bullshit-ed before this stuff errupted. It is sad that the Pres., with all his resources, didn’t see it. But I also have a hard time beleiving we should cut GWB much slack. If he was mislead, he made sure the job was very easy: he already knew what he wanted to do before he was given any intelligence. His intel. people told him what he wanted to hear. And from the little behind-the-scenes type rumor I have heard about this president, that’s the way he runs his show. You tell him what he wants to hear, or you get fired.

    I really do hope that we follow this through as a country. Either there were tons of WMD, and we find them. If not, there are only one of two possibilities: we were flat-out lied to, or our intelligence gathering community is a farce of epic proportions.

    What saddens me most, though, is I don’t think this will go anywhere. It will disappear into the memory hole.

    Tim

  3. OFFICIALS DENIED ANY KNOWLEDGE OF PATRICK BARONS WHEREABOUTS AND FAILED TO RESOLVE THE ISSUE, OR EVEN ANSWER THE QUESTION.
    ONE SPOKESMAN SAID, “WE ARE NOT SURE WHO THIS MAN IS OR WHO HE WORKS FOR.” WHAT WE ARE SURE ABOUT IS THAT HE HAS BEEN IN CHINA ON RECORD AT LEAST ONE TIME, BUT HAS LEFT THE COUNTRY ON AT LEAST FIVE OCCASIONS.
    THE GOVERNMENT IS SAYING: PATRICK BARON WAS LAST SEEN LEAVING SOUTHERN CHINA INTO BURMA, HOWEVER TWO WEEKS LATER RECORDS INDICATE THAT BARON ALSO LEFT HONG KONG.
    “OFFICIALS ARE EXERCISING A GREAT DEAL OF EFFORT ON THIS INDIVIDUAL.”

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